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
Worthy
Consequence
Mean
Things
Imprisonment
Disobedience
Dare

More quotes by Juvenal

Image
When the mischief is done the door is shut.
Juvenal
Image
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
Juvenal
Image
Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]
Juvenal
Image
Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.
Juvenal
Image
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Juvenal
Image
What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?
Juvenal
Image
Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]
Juvenal
Image
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
Juvenal
Image
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
Juvenal
Image
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
Juvenal
Image
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
Juvenal
Image
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
Juvenal
Image
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart this is our noblest quality.
Juvenal
Image
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
Juvenal
Image
The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]
Juvenal
Image
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.
Juvenal
Image
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Juvenal
Image
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
Juvenal
Image
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender
Juvenal
Image
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
Juvenal