Juvenal Quotes

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• Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

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  Giving, Circus, Bread

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• Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Rome

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 297, 1890.

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• Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

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  Wisdom, Watches, Custody

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• Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

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  Vices, Deceiving, Virtue

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• Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

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  War, Luxury

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• Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

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  Different, Crowns, Bears

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• Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

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  Snakes, Fellowship, Today

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

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  Knowledge, Pay The Price, Talking

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• It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

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  Order, Want, Madness

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• Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

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  Health, Mind, Body

  "Satires".

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• Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

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  Fear, Hate, Men

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• When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

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  Writing, Talent, Failing

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• The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

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  Love, Life, Success

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 521-24, XIV, line 139, 1922.

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• Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.

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  Two, Long, People

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• Virtue is the only and true nobility.
  [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

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  Virtue, Nobility

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• Integrity is praised, and starves.

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  Integrity, Virtue

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• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

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  Wisdom, Nature, Earth Day

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

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  Insults You, Insulted, Ought

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• Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

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  Beauty, Mind, Body

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.451

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• Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

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  Luxury, Enjoyment, Foe

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

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  Loss, Medicine, Mind

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 356, 1890.

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• Nature and wisdom always say the same.

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  Nature

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• Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

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  Prayer, Lying, Believe

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• When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

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  Too Late, Retreat, Late

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• The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.

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  Men, Wife, Kind

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