Quotes from Juvenal

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

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

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.