Quote

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Juvenal

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Juvenal
Poet
Writer
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Things
Imprisonment
Disobedience
Dare
Worthy
Consequence
Mean

More quotes by Juvenal

Image
Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.
Juvenal
Image
When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]
Juvenal
Image
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]
Juvenal
Image
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
Juvenal
Image
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
Juvenal
Image
No man becomes bad all at once.
Juvenal
Image
One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
Juvenal
Image
A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.
Juvenal
Image
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
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
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
Juvenal
Image
No nice extreme a true Italian knows But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
Juvenal
Image
One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
Juvenal
Image
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart this is our noblest quality.
Juvenal
Image
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
Juvenal
Image
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
Juvenal
Image
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Juvenal
Image
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal
Image
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.
Juvenal
Image
To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]
Juvenal