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Juvenal Quotes
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Famous Juvenal Quotations
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Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140)
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- A healthy mind in a healthy body. Juvenal »
- All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. Juvenal »
- All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. Juvenal »
- Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.) Juvenal »
- Be gentle with the young. Juvenal »
- Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends. Juvenal »
- But who is to guard the guards themselves Juvenal »
- Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having. Juvenal »
- Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. Juvenal »
- It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. Juvenal »
- Luxury is more deadly than any foe. Juvenal »
- Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. Juvenal »
- One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue. Juvenal »
- Peace visits not the guilty mind. Juvenal »
- Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. Juvenal »
- The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses Juvenal »
- Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. Juvenal »
- Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses. Juvenal »
- You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. Juvenal »
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