Juvenal

quis custodiet custodes watch watchers

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?”

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

nature wisdom

“Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.”

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

crime cross crown

“Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.”

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

mens sana corpore sano

“Sit mens sana in corpore sano"

(a healthy mind in a healthy body)

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

writing disease chronic sick mind

“Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.”

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

people command consul legion bread circus

“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.)

wish posess knowledge pay price

“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

mother in law domestic harmony

“while your mother in law still lives, domestic harmony / is out of the question.”

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

difficult write satire

“Difficile est satiram non scribere

[It is hard not to write a satire]”

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

bread circus revolt

"Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt"

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

fellowship snakes mankind

"Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings."

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

luck vulgarity position mirth

"Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders."

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

reason direct desire fear

"When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?"

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

words kindness lie

"There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie."

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

intolerable woman purse

"Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse."

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

money living fortune greed

"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.)

learning learned price

"All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price."

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)

mens sana in corpore sano

"mens sana in corpore sano"

—Juvenal (ca. 1st cn.)