Source: The Sixteen Satires
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Famous Juvenal Quotes
Source: The Sixteen Satires
Source: Satires, Book I
“Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.”
Source: The satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus
“A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.”
“Luxury is more deadly than any foe.”
Source: Juvenal and Persius
“The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.”
“Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.”
Source: The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis,
“Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.”
Source: The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
“All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.”
Source: Satires
“I only feel, but want the power to paint.”
Source: The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...
“It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.”
“The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.”
“This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason”
“Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.”
Source: The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius
“Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.”
Source: The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...
“It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge”
“In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.”
“There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.”
“He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.”
“I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.”
“Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.”
Source: The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus
“Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.”
“Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.”
Source: The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes