Juvenal Quotes

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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

It is difficult not to write satire.

odi hanc ego quae repetit uoluitque Palaemonis artem seruata semper lege et ratione loquendi ignotosque mihi tenet antiquaria uersus nec curanda uiris.

Must this with farce and folly rack my
head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,
Whine me dead?

But you will soon pay for it, my friend, when you take off your clothes, and with distended stomach carry your peacock into the bath undigested! Hence a sudden death, and an intestate old age; the new and merry tale runs the round of every dinner-table, and the corpse is carried forth to burial amid the cheers of enraged friends!

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Sit mens sana in corpore sano
(a healthy mind in a healthy body)

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

Duas tantum res anxius optat, Panem et circenses, by the Roman satirist Juvenal.

Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat res angusta domi.

Poor Codrus had nothing, it is true: but he lost that nothing, which was his all

orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.

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

But just where will men draw the limit, after they see a high-born lawyer dress in transparent chiffon, to public amazement, to prosecute loose-living women? If they’re whores, bring in a guilty verdict: yet even a proven whore wouldn’t dare to rig herself out like that.