Quotes by Juvenal

Juvenal

Juvenal

Roman poet

Category: Poets (Contemporary)

Quotes 21 till 39 of 39.

  • Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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  • No one every suddenly became depraved.
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  • Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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  • Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
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  • So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
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  • The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
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  • The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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  • The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
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  • The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
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  • The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
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  • They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
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  • Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
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  • Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
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  • We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
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  • What is the use of your pedigrees?
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  • Wisdom overcomes fortune.
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  • Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
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  • Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.
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  • All things may be bought in Rome with money.
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