Juvenal
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.Collection: Cry
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]Collection: Ravens
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.Collection: Swans
Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.Collection: Military
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?Collection: Watches
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.Collection: Men
There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.Collection: Bottom
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?Collection: Parenting
There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.Collection: Men
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.Collection: White
The greatest respect is owed to a child.Collection: Children
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.Collection: Punishment
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.Collection: Food
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.Collection: Men
Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.Collection: Nature
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.Collection: Men
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloakCollection: People
Who watches the watchmen?Collection: Political
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.Collection: Money
The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.Collection: Teacher
Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.Collection: Growth
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.Collection: Example
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.Collection: Character
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.Collection: Circles
Be a gentleman farmer.Collection: Gentleman
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.Collection: Gold
The abuse of cabmen in a block.Collection: Block
What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?Collection: Imperfection
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.Collection: Revenge
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.Collection: Mean
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.Collection: Laughter
No man ever became very wicked all at once.Collection: Men
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.Collection: Writing
The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.Collection: Eclipse
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]Collection: Money
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leapCollection: Umpires
Even savage animals can agree among themselves.Collection: Animal
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.Collection: Men
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.Collection: Sorrow
The act of God injures no one.Collection: Action
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.Collection: Wisdom
Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed itCollection: Men