Juvenal Quotes

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

The smell of profit is clean and sweet whatever the source.

Honesty is admired, and starves.

Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.

I wish it I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

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

We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.

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

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

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

Many individuals have like uncut diamonds shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Honesty's praised then left to freeze.

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

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

All wish to be learned but no one is willing to pay the price.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.