| 48 Famous Quotes by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
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“With thumb turned.
[Lat., Verso pollice.]”
Judgment Quotes Source: Satires (III, 36)
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“What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent
of the undertaking and the accomplishment of your wish?
[Lat., Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te conatus non poeniteat
votique peracti?]”
Judgment Quotes Source: Satires (X, 5)
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“What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
[Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]”
Tyranny Quotes Source: Satires (IV, 86)
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“Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One
bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]”
Crime Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 103)
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“By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]”
Crime Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 2)
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“For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
Facti crimen habet.]”
Crime Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 209)
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“You are not to do evil that good may come of it.
[Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]”
Crime Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 209)
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“Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when
you, though an old man, do worse things (than your child)?
[Lat., Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis,
Cum facias pejora senex?”
Example Quotes Source: Satires (XIV, 56)
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“Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.
[Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa
Fortuna.]”
Sense Quotes Source: Satires (VIII, 73)
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“I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
[Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.]”
Reason Quotes Source: Satires (VI, 223)
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“Father of his country.
[Lat., Pater pariae.]”
Patriotism Quotes Source: Satires (VIII, 244), title bestowed on Cicero (64 BC) after his consulship
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“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for
your country.”
Patriotism Quotes Source: Satires (VIII, 244), title bestowed on Cicero (64 BC) after his consulship
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“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
Patriotism Quotes Source: Satires (VIII, 244), title bestowed on Cicero (64 BC) after his consulship
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“Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of
Latin.
[Lat., Omnia Graece!
Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine.]”
Linguists Quotes Source: Satires (VI, 187), (second line said to be spurious)
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“It is difficult not to write satire.
[Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]”
Satire Quotes Source: Satires (I, 29)
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“Satire is what closes Saturday night.”
Satire Quotes Source: Satires (I, 29)
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“The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an
ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
[Lat., Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat
Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.]”
Flattery Quotes Source: Satires (III, 86)
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“Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
[Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa
Fortuna.]”
Wealth Quotes Source: Satires (VIII, 73)
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“He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
[Lat., Dives fieri qui vult
Et cito vult fieri.]”
Wealth Quotes Source: Satires (XIV, 176)
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“Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or
the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
[Lat., Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo,
Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus.]”
Ancestry Quotes Source: Satires (VIII, 1)
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“Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from me--
Virtue alone is true nobility!”
Nobility Quotes Source: Satire VIII (l. 29), (Gifford's translation)
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“There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is
praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]”
Power Quotes Source: Satires (IV, 70)
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“Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
[Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam
Posse volunt.]”
Power Quotes Source: Satires (X, 96)
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“Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]”
Hunger Quotes Source: Satires (III, 78)
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“Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
[Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]”
Pleasure Quotes Source: Satires (XI, 208)
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