Juvenal
Astrology reveals the will of the gods.Collection: Astrology
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.Collection: Children
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.Collection: Home
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.Collection: Class
Who is to guard the guards themselves?Collection: Awareness
No one ever suddenly became depraved.Collection: Depraved
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.Collection: Latin
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?Collection: Tyrants
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.Collection: Men
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.Collection: Order
Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.Collection: Heart
Travelers with naught sing in the robber's faceCollection: Singing
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.Collection: Guilt
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]Collection: Views
He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.Collection: Wish
All wish to know, but few the price will pay.Collection: Knowledge
Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.Collection: Example
No one becomes depraved all at once.Collection: Depraved
Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.Collection: Mean
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.Collection: Punishment
To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.Collection: Father
Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.Collection: Light
Satire is what closes Saturday night.Collection: Night
Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.Collection: Games
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.Collection: Eye
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.Collection: Gone
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.Collection: Desire
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.Collection: Men
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?Collection: Faults
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!Collection: Hero
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.Collection: Art
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.Collection: World
Of what avail are pedigrees?Collection: Pedigree
To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.Collection: Gains
Be gentle with the young.Collection: Children