Quote

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

Juvenal

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Juvenal
Poet
Writer
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Contented
Crime
Seen
Ever
Men

More quotes by Juvenal

Image
Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)
Juvenal
Image
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
Juvenal
Image
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?
Juvenal
Image
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
Juvenal
Image
No man becomes bad all at once.
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
To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.
Juvenal
Image
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
Juvenal
Image
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
Juvenal
Image
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.
Juvenal
Image
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
Juvenal
Image
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
Image
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
Juvenal
Image
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.
Juvenal
Image
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
Juvenal
Image
Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.
Juvenal
Image
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
Juvenal
Image
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
Juvenal
Image
Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]
Juvenal
Image
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
Juvenal