Juvenal Quotes

orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.

Denn selten sind die Guten; zähle sie, es sind kaum so viele
wie die Tore Thebens oder die Mündungsarme des reichen Nil.

Me nemo ministro fur erit, atque ideo nulli comes exeo.

Panem et circenses.

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.

The Latin phrase cacoethes scribendi means ‘an irresistible desire to write’ (taken from the Roman writer Juvenal).

Quis custodiet
ipsos custodes

Probitas laudatur et alget

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

..but who will guard the guardians?

We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.

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

If nature's inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem

However faster we pedestrians may hurry, crowds surge ahead, those behind us buffet my rib-cage, poles poke into me; one lout swings a crossbeam down on my skull, another scores with a barrel. My legs are mud-encrusted, from all sides big feet kick me, a hobnailed soldier’s boot lands squarely on my toes.