Juvenal Quotes

Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, quam quod ridiculos homines facit.

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

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

Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.

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!

Poena tamen praesens, cum tu deponis amictus turgidus et crudum pavonem in balnea portas. hinc subitae mortes atque intestata senectus; it nova nec tristis per cunctas fabula cenas: ducitur iratis plaudendum funus amicis.

Probitas laudatur et alget

Difficile est saturam non scribere.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who supervises the supervisors themselves?

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

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

mēns sāna in corpore sānō - Эрүүл биед саруул ухаан.