Quotes by Juvenal

19 quotes by Juvenal

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

Quote about respect, children, mind

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Quote about wish, knowledge

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

Quote about tears, eyes

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Quote about wish, reason

It is difficult not to write satire.

Quote about satire

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Quote about poverty

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Quote about wisdom, nature, things

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

Quote about vice

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Quote about virtue

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Quote about union, beauty

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

Quote about oratory, thieves, face

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

Quote about dispute, woman

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Quote about praise, punishment, heart, man