Juvenal Quotes

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno”
Juvenal___Satires
Black Swan

The world was not big enough for Alexander the Great, but a coffin was.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who watches the watchmen themselves?

Had we but wisdom, thou wouldst have no Divinity, O Fortune: it is we that make thee into a Goddess!

Difficile est satiram non scribere
[It is hard not to write a satire]

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.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

Would you not like to fill up a whole note-book at the street crossings when you see a forger borne along upon the necks of six porters, and exposed to view on this side and on that in his almost naked litter, and reminding you of the lounging Maecenas: one who by help of a scrap of paper and a moistened seal has converted himself into a fine and wealthy gentleman?

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

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

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who will guard the guards?

No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.

Mens Sana In Corpore Sano

there is nothing that divine Majesty will not believe concerning itself when lauded to the skies!