Juvenal
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.Collection: Virtue
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.Collection: Revenge
Wisdom overcomes fortune.Collection: Wisdom
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.Collection: Assuming
No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.Collection: Evil
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.Collection: Forgiveness
No god is absent where prudence dwells.Collection: Prudence
There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.Collection: Women
Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?Collection: Mother
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.Collection: Giving
Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.Collection: May
The face, not the woman is the attraction.Collection: Faces
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.Collection: Heirs
Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.Collection: Want
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.Collection: Giving
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.Collection: Writing
Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.Collection: Heart
There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.Collection: Appearance
Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.Collection: Death
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Collection: Children
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.Collection: Ravens
Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.Collection: Pleasure
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.Collection: Girl
From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.Collection: Disease
The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.Collection: Tongue
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.Collection: Long
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?Collection: Rewards
Let him love none and be by none beloved!Collection: Beloved
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.Collection: Deeds
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.Collection: Bears
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.Collection: Men
Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.Collection: Majestic
Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.Collection: Death
Those things please more, which are more expensive.Collection: Please
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.Collection: Men
It is difficult not to write satire.Collection: Writing
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offenderCollection: Mind
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.Collection: Guidance
Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)Collection: Healthy
One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.Collection: Peace
No one every suddenly became depraved.Collection: Lust
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.Collection: Secret
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.Collection: Tyrants
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.Collection: Order