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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with J >> Quotes By Juvenal |
| Quote #1: | "Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another." |
| Quote #2: | "All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price." |
| Quote #3: | "Luxury is more deadly than any foe." |
| Quote #4: | "All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price." |
| Quote #5: | "Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses." |
| Quote #6: | "Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.)" |
| Quote #7: | "But who is to guard the guards themselves" |
| Quote #8: | "Peace visits not the guilty mind." |
| Quote #9: | "One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue." |
| Quote #10: | "Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance." |
| Quote #11: | "Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having." |
| Quote #12: | "A healthy mind in a healthy body." |
| Quote #13: | "Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved." |
| Quote #14: | "Be gentle with the young." |
| Quote #15: | "Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends." |
| Quote #16: | "Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living." |
| Quote #17: | "You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body." |
| Quote #18: | "The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses" |
| Quote #19: | "It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty." |
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