Quote

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

Juvenal

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Juvenal
Poet
Writer
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Profits
Seldom
Ill
Gotten
Third
Thirds
Profit
Heir
Wealth
Heirs

More quotes by Juvenal

Image
The itch of scribbling.
Juvenal
Image
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
Juvenal
Image
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
Juvenal
Image
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
Juvenal
Image
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
Juvenal
Image
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Juvenal
Image
Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.
Juvenal
Image
The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]
Juvenal
Image
The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.
Juvenal
Image
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
Juvenal
Image
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
Juvenal
Image
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
Juvenal
Image
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
Juvenal
Image
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!
Juvenal
Image
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
Juvenal
Image
For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.
Juvenal
Image
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
Juvenal
Image
Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]
Juvenal
Image
The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
Juvenal
Image
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
Juvenal