70+Juvenal Best Quotes

Juvenal was a prominent Roman satirical poet known for his critical and satirical commentary on the Roman society of his time. Here are some of Juvenal All Time's famous best quotes

Juvenal Roman Poet Most Famous Quotes

1.      “The censor forgives the crows and harasses the doves.”— Juvenal

2.      "The wisest of the wise may err."— Juvenal

3.      “If you do not know how to live rightly, you should make way for those who do.”— Juvenal

4.      "It is difficult not to write satire."— Juvenal

5.      “ No pleasure can be so exquisite that it does not at some point cause loathing.”— Juvenal

6.      "In Rome everything is for sale."— Juvenal

7.      “It is difficult not to write satire.”— Juvenal

8.      "Virtue is praised, but hated."— Juvenal

9.      “Am I always to be the listener only?”— Juvenal

10.  "Honesty is praised and starves."— Juvenal

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11.  “You will not rightly call someone happy who possesses much.”— Juvenal

12.  "The greatest wealth is to live content with little."— Juvenal

13.  “No one ever became extremely wicked all at once.”— Juvenal

14.  "What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock."— Juvenal

15.  “Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.”— Juvenal

16.  "Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."— Juvenal

17.  “For it will greatly matter with what skills and by what strengths one may demand nature.”— Juvenal

18.  "It is the mind that creates the world."— Juvenal

19.  “He doesn't care to be victorious, but is content to be instructed by the examples of others, he adorns his life with better things.”— Juvenal

20.  "Who will guard the guards themselves?"— Juvenal

21.  "It is the lot of the woman to be restrained, to be shut up, to be kept in check, and to be given little freedom."— Juvenal

22.  “The traveler will sing in the presence of the highwayman if his pockets are empty.”— Juvenal

23.  "How many men, how many heroes, have shed their blood and poured out their lives to gain power, and have thus fallen victims to their own ambition?"— Juvenal

24.  "Who can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become? No one, not even you."— Juvenal

25.  “The first way is steep, and where, with difficulty, the soft ones struggle out of sleep in the early morning.”— Juvenal

26.  "The only true riches are the riches of the soul."— Juvenal

27.  “There are words and voices with which you can soften this pain.”— Juvenal

28.  "If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself."— Juvenal

29.  “He says, 'Leave if it is not pleasing.”— Juvenal

30.  "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve, and bad things are very easy to get."— Juvenal

31.  "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."— Juvenal

32.  “Where the great offend, all lesser faults will be forbidden.”— Juvenal

33.  "The mind is everything; what you think, you become."— Juvenal

34.  “We should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.”— Juvenal

35.  "Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it."— Juvenal

36.  “Honor lies in virtue, not in blood.”— Juvenal

37.  "For who would embrace virtue itself if you take away the rewards?”— Juvenal

38.  "A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."— Juvenal

39.  "Who will guard the guards themselves?"— Juvenal

40.  "It is the lot of the woman to be restrained, to be shut up, to be kept in check, and to be given little freedom."— Juvenal

41.  "Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."— Juvenal

42.  "Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."— Juvenal

43.  "The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may."— Juvenal

44.  "Ambition, like love, is blind; it makes us believe in things that are not, and fail to see the things that are."— Juvenal

45.  "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."— Juvenal

46.  "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."— Juvenal

47.  "A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful, and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life."— Juvenal

48.  "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."— Juvenal

49.  "All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."— Juvenal

50.  "It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."— Juvenal

51.  "Brevity is the soul of wit."— Juvenal

52.  "The best ideas are common property."— Juvenal

53.  "Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have."— Juvenal

54.  "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."— Juvenal

55.  "The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."— Juvenal

56.  "There is nothing so shameful as to be afraid to speak the truth."— Juvenal

57.  "Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt."— Juvenal

58.  "Rare is the union of beauty and purity."— Juvenal

59.  "Luxury destroys more efficiently than war."— Juvenal

60.  "Who will watch the watchers?"— Juvenal

61.  "Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue."— Juvenal

62.  "Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue."— Juvenal

63.  "Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings."— Juvenal

64.  "Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another."— Juvenal

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

66.  "No man becomes bad all at once."— Juvenal

67.  A sound mind in a sound body."— Juvenal

68.  Bread and circuses."— Juvenal

69.  But who will guard the guards themselves?"— Juvenal

70.  The greatest respect is owed to a child."— Juvenal

71.  The descent into Hell is easy."— Juvenal

72.  “It is a virtue to shun vice, and the first wisdom is to be free from folly.”— Juvenal

73.  “The most unfortunate fortune is the safest; nobody troubles the sea.”— Juvenal

74.  “Every vice is in itself more conspicuous and culpable, the higher the rank of the offender.”— Juvenal

75.  “This is my will, thus I command; let my will stand in place of reason.”— Juvenal

76.  “Happy is he whom other men's dangers make cautious.”— Juvenal