Juvenal Quotes

"No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly."
- Juvenal

"This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted."
- Juvenal
(Related: Heart, First, Man, Punishment)

"There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman."
- Juvenal
(Related: Woman)

"The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face."
- Juvenal
(Related: Will)

"Rare is the union of beauty and purity."
- Juvenal
(Related: Beauty, Purity)

"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised."
- Juvenal
(Related: Vices)

"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."
- Juvenal
(Related: Vice)

"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."
- Juvenal
(Related: Knowledge)

"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years."
- Juvenal
(Related: Son, Mind, Respect, Years)

"Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior."
- Juvenal

"Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove."
- Juvenal
(Related: Censure)

"For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes."
- Juvenal
(Related: Women, Eyes, Tears)

"I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason."
- Juvenal
(Related: Reason, Will)

"It is difficult not to write satire."
- Juvenal
(Related: Satire)

"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."
- Juvenal
(Related: Men, Poverty)

"One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander."
- Juvenal