| 48 Famous Quotes by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
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“A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
[Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]”
Medicine Quotes Source: Satires (X, 356)
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“Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body.
[Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]”
Health Quotes Source: Satires (X, 356)
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“Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
[Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum
Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]”
Forgiveness Quotes Source: Satires (III, 39)
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“Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous
to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of
guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat
of his own conscience.
[Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi
Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se
Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]”
Guilt Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 1)
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“Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those
who denounce what they do themselves.)
[Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?]”
Faults Quotes Source: Satires (II, 24)
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“Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]”
Vice Quotes Source: Satires (VIII, 140)
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“And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.”
Scandal Quotes Source: Satires (IX), (Harvey's translation)
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“And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.”
Scandal Quotes Source: Satires (IX), (Harvey's translation)
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“The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
[Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]”
Tongue Quotes Source: Satires (IX, 120)
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“We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved.
[Lat., Dociles imitandis
Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]”
Imitation Quotes Source: Satires (XIV, 40)
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“A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan.
[Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.]”
Birds Quotes Source: Satires (VI, 165)
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“In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
[Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]”
Eating Quotes Source: Satires (II, 11)
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“To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
[Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]”
Eating Quotes Source: Satires (V, 2)
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“I only feel, but want the power to paint.
[Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]”
Painting Quotes Source: Satires (VII, 56)
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“A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
[Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]”
Luck Quotes Source: Satires (VII, 202)
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“Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please
children and be made the subject of declamation.
[Lat., I demens! et saevas curre per Alpes,
Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias.]”
Insanity Quotes Source: Satires (X, 166)
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“Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
[Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti.]”
Revenge Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 180)
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“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
[Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Ultio.]”
Revenge Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 189)
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“No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]”
Revenge Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 191)
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“Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not
exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has
received.
[Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]”
Grief Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 11)
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“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.”
Humanity Quotes Source: Satire XV (l. 203)
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“The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.
[Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria
Piscator quam piscis emi.]”
Fishermen Quotes Source: Satires (satire IV, l. 26)
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“Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin,
Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.”
Remorse Quotes Source: Satires (satire XIII, l. 1), (William Gifford's translation)
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