Juvenal Quotes

Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

show me the apartment 235 that lets you sleep! In this city sleep costs millions, and that’s the root of the trouble.

No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.

It is difficult not to write satire.

"Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna."

["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]

The question is not put how far extends

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

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!

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

incipe, Calliope. licet et considere: non est
cantandum, res uera agitur. narrate, puellae 35
Pierides, prosit mihi uos dixisse puellas.

If now a friend denies not what was given him in trust,
If he restores an ancient purse with all its coins and rust,
This prodigy of honesty deserves to be enrolled
In Tuscan books, and with a sacrificial lamb extolled.

So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.

Qus custodiet ipsos custodes

Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat res angusta domi.