No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.


Juvenal Satires The 13th

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More Juvenal Satires The 13th

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENAL
Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.
JUVENAL
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
JUVENAL
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse thin...
JUVENAL
Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
JUVENAL
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
JUVENAL
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
JUVENAL
The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
JUVENAL
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
JUVENAL
Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
JUVENAL
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
JUVENAL
Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy,...
JUVENAL
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
JUVENAL
No one every suddenly became depraved.
JUVENAL
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
JUVENAL
So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
JUVENAL
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into o...
JUVENAL
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of af...
JUVENAL
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
JUVENAL
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
JUVENAL
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
JUVENAL
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
JUVENAL
Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games.
JUVENAL
What is the use of your pedigrees?
JUVENAL
Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
JUVENAL
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
JUVENAL
It is difficult not to write satire.
JUVENAL
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JUVENAL
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
JUVENAL
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
JUVENAL
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
JUVENAL
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
JUVENAL
Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
JUVENAL
Revenge is a dish best served cold
JUVENAL
Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
JUVENAL
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
JUVENAL
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
JUVENAL
A healthy mind in a healthy body.
JUVENAL
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix)
JUVENAL
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL
One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
JUVENAL
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
JUVENAL
There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
JUVENAL
A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't...
JUVENAL
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL
Be gentle with the young.
JUVENAL
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wi...
JUVENAL
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
JUVENAL
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
JUVENAL
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
JUVENAL
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a con...
JUVENAL
Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
JUVENAL
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no m...
JUVENAL
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes lif...
JUVENAL
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reaso...
JUVENAL
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we ...
JUVENAL
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
JUVENAL
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
JUVENAL
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the of...
JUVENAL
Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
JUVENAL
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no m...
JUVENAL
Two things only the people anxiously desire - bread and circuses
JUVENAL
There's many a thing which they - Whose coats are tattered never dare to say
JUVENAL
Panem et circenses.
JUVENAL
No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
JUVENAL
All want to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price
JUVENAL
All wish to know, but none want to pay the fee
JUVENAL
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last
JUVENAL
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
JUVENAL
Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, w...
JUVENAL
'Tis unto children most respect is due
JUVENAL
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind
JUVENAL
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons ...
JUVENAL
Wisdom is the winner over good luck
JUVENAL
Honesty is praised and starves
JUVENAL
The blind envy the one-eyed
JUVENAL
No one ever suddenly became depraved
JUVENAL
Let nothing which is disgraceful to be spoken of, or to be seen, approach this place where a child i...
JUVENAL
Virtue is the one and only nobility.
JUVENAL
Indulgence rare to pleasures lendeth zest
JUVENAL
No one ever reached the depths of wickedness all at once.
JUVENAL
No one shall be a thief with me as his helper
JUVENAL
In times like these it is difficult not to write satire
JUVENAL
Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
JUVENAL
Virtue's admired - and shivers with the cold
JUVENAL
difficile est saturam non scribere
JUVENAL
Who is to guard the guards themselves?
JUVENAL
The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
JUVENAL
A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ign...
JUVENAL
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
JUVENAL
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Father of his country. [Lat., Pater pariae.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogita...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroqu...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of a...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est anim...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quem...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult Et c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa For...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat.,...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Satire is what closes Saturday night.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselv...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse thi...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent of the undertaking and the accompli...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpib...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in i...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' w...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eag...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in ...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine ...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of de...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece! C...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proport...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; Tha...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deform...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. [Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL
For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
THE WEEKND
I'm the most boring person to talk to.
THE WEEKND
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
THE TALMUD
He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD
For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD
Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
THE TALMUD
Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD
No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
THE TALMUD
If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD
Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
THE KORAN
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
THE TALMUD
This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj...
THE MAHABHARTA
The sun will set without thy assistance.
THE TALMUD
A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
THE TALMUD
Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD
Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
THE TALMUD
The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
THE TALMUD
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD
To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
THE TALMUD
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
THE TALMUD
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
THE TALMUD
Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD
Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
THE TALMUD
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
THE BIBLE
Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
THE BIBLE
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
THE BIBLE
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ru...
THE BIBLE
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise ma...
THE BIBLE
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
THE BIBLE
Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.
THE BIBLE
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom...
THE BIBLE
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, a...
THE BIBLE
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are ...
THE BIBLE
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
THE BIBLE
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
THE BIBLE
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
THE BIBLE
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of...
THE BIBLE
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall pre...
THE BIBLE
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their...
THE BIBLE
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou cri...
THE BIBLE
Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
THE BIBLE
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
THE BIBLE
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
THE BIBLE
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...
THE BIBLE
And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great te...
THE BIBLE