Quote

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

Juvenal

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Juvenal
Poet
Writer
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Disgrace
Discover
Lasts
Last
House

More quotes by Juvenal

Image
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
Juvenal
Image
Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal
Image
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
Juvenal
Image
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?
Juvenal
Image
Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.
Juvenal
Image
Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
Juvenal
Image
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap
Juvenal
Image
No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.
Juvenal
Image
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
Juvenal
Image
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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
To lay down one's life for the truth.
Juvenal
Image
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
Juvenal
Image
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
Juvenal
Image
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
Juvenal
Image
A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.
Juvenal
Image
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
Juvenal
Image
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
Juvenal
Image
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Juvenal
Image
To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]
Juvenal