Juvenal Quotes

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

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

difficile est saturam non scribere

Fati valet hora benigni

What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?

Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.

Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori
et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.

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!

Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.

Vitam impendere vero.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind- (the reasoning is that revenge comes from pain and pain is weakness).