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Juvenal
32 quotes
“Semper ego auditor tantum? numquamne reponam Vexatus totiens rauci Theseide Cordi?”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Difficile est saturam non scribere.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Probitas laudatur et alget”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Me nemo ministro fur erit, atque ideo nulli comes exeo.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What's Rome to me, what business have I there? I who can neither lie, nor falsely swear? Nor praise my patron's undeserving rhymes, Nor yet comply with him, nor with his times?”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, quam quod ridiculos homines facit.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (la)
“Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat res angusta domi.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (la)
“Hic vivimus ambitiosa paupertate omnes.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The question is not put how far extends His piety, but what he yearly spends; Quick, to the business; how he lives and eats; How largely gives; how splendidly he treats; How many thousand acres feed his sheep; What are his rents; what servants does he keep? The account is soon cast up; the judges rate Our credit in the court by our estate.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nemo malus felix.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vitam impendere vero.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nunc patimur longae pacis mala, saevior armis luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (la)
“Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare: "We'll shine in more substantial honours, And to be noble we'll be good."—Thomas Percy, Winifreda (1720)
“Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nam si tibi sidera cessant, nil faciet longi mensura incognita nervi, quamvis te nudum spumanti Virro labello viderit et blandae adsidue densaeque tabellae sollicitent, autos gar ephelketai andra kinaidos.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quanto delphinis ballaena Britannica maior.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (la)
“Nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (la)
“Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato: Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quippe minuti semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas ultio.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Maxima debetur puero reverentia.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Indica tigris agit rabida cum tigride pacem perpetuam, saevis inter se convenit ursis.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fati valet hora benigni.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Grammarian, orator, geometrician; painter, gymnastic teacher, physician; fortune-teller, rope-dancer, conjuror,--he knew everything.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nobility is the one only virtue.”
Juvenal (55–200) said by 200 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source