Juvenal
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.Collection: Shadow
When the mischief is done the door is shut.Collection: Doors
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.Collection: Dinner
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.Collection: Heart
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.Collection: Men
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.Collection: Loss
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.Collection: Believe
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.Collection: Mean
But who guards the guardians?Collection: Guardian
All things may be bought in Rome with money.Collection: Money
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.Collection: Wise
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.Collection: Men
Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.Collection: Friendship
Nature and wisdom always say the same.Collection: Nature
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.Collection: Excess
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.Collection: Wife
Every great house is full of haughty servants.Collection: House
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hateCollection: Hate
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.Collection: Honesty
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.Collection: Wealthy
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.Collection: Writing
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.Collection: Happiness
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.Collection: Men
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.Collection: Marriage
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?Collection: Men
The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.Collection: Care
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.Collection: Inspirational
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.Collection: Pleasure
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.Collection: Hope
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.Collection: Prayer
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revengeCollection: Revenge
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.Collection: Luxury
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.Collection: Crowns
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.Collection: War
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.Collection: Knowledge
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.Collection: Inspirational
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.Collection: Vices
It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.Collection: Poverty
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!Collection: Two
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.Collection: Men
Man, wretched man, whene’er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.Collection: Strong