Quote

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

Juvenal

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Juvenal
Poet
Writer
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Concerns
Circuses
Command
Legions
Bread
Eagerly
Concern
Longs
Else
Legion
Two
Bestowed
Things
Commands
People
Circus

More quotes by Juvenal

Image
One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
Juvenal
Image
When the mischief is done the door is shut.
Juvenal
Image
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.
Juvenal
Image
A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.
Juvenal
Image
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]
Juvenal
Image
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
Juvenal
Image
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
Juvenal
Image
Let him love none and be by none beloved!
Juvenal
Image
Astrology reveals the will of the gods.
Juvenal
Image
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
Juvenal
Image
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.
Juvenal
Image
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
Juvenal
Image
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
Juvenal
Image
Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.
Juvenal
Image
Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.
Juvenal
Image
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.
Juvenal
Image
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
Juvenal
Image
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
Juvenal
Image
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
Juvenal
Image
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.
Juvenal