Quotes from Ancient Times
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
It is difficult not to write satire.
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
No one every suddenly became depraved.
Memorable Quotes
Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
What is the use of your pedigrees?
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
Insightful Quotes cards
Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.