“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?”
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
“Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.”
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
“Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.”
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
“Sit mens sana in corpore sano"
(a healthy mind in a healthy body)
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
“Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.”
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
“The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!”
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
“while your mother in law still lives, domestic harmony / is out of the question.”
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
“Difficile est satiram non scribere
[It is hard not to write a satire]”
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
"Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt"
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
"Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings."
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
"Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders."
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
"When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?"
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
"There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie."
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
"Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse."
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
"Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake."
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
"All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price."
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)
"mens sana in corpore sano"
—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)