Quotes About Juvenal

We are reminded of the court-parasites of the Roman Empire, of whom Juvenal wrote: the bad jokes of Fortune—village pierrots yesterday, arbiters of life and death today

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

Poetry, architecture, music, philosophy and mathematics all intrigued him and he was patron of them all, surrounding himself with men of genius: the poet and satirist Juvenal, the architect Apollodorus, the historians Tacitus, Suetonius and Arrian, the writers Pliny the Younger, Pausanias and Plutarch.

Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

An inveterate and incurable itch for writing besets many, and grows old in their sick hearts.

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