Quotes from Juvenal

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix)

Quis costodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will watch the watchers?)

Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

What is the use of your pedigrees?

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.

He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.