Juvenal Quotes

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!

It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.
Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,
which places the length of life last among nature’s blessings,
which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,
does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believes
the hardships and savage labors of Hercules better than
the satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.
I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;
For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue.

mēns sāna in corpore sānō - Эрүүл биед саруул ухаан.

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

Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

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

Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.

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

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.

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

What's Rome to me, what business have I there?

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

Anima sana in corpore sano

orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.

difficile est saturam non scribere