Juvenal
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.Collection: Strong
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!Collection: Age
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.Collection: Soul
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.Collection: Desire
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.Collection: Giving
No man becomes bad all at once.Collection: Men
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.Collection: Patience
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.Collection: Men
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.Collection: Sweet
No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.Collection: Character
Wisdom is the winner over good luck.Collection: Good Luck
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.Collection: Ambitious
Savage bears agree with one another.Collection: Savages
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.Collection: Cabbage
Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.Collection: Autumn
For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.Collection: Drinking
Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.Collection: Honesty
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.Collection: Traveller
The arrows are from her dowry.Collection: Arrows
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.Collection: Hatred
The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.Collection: Fisherman
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.Collection: Want
Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.Collection: Path
Wisdom triumphs over chance.Collection: Triumph
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.Collection: Missing
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.Collection: Revenge
He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.Collection: House
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.Collection: Kindness
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.Collection: Ruins
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]Collection: Men
I only feel, but want the power to paint.Collection: Want
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.Collection: Swans
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.Collection: Men
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.Collection: Prayer
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.Collection: Writing
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.Collection: Art
Men who only live to eat.Collection: Men
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.Collection: Luck
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?Collection: Fear
Remorse is the fruit of crime.Collection: Fruit