Quotes from Juvenal

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

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

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.