Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENALWhere talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
More Juvenal Quotes
-
-
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL -
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
JUVENAL -
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL -
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL -
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL -
Honesty is admired, and starves.
JUVENAL -
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL -
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL -
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
JUVENAL -
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
JUVENAL -
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENAL -
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL -
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL -
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
JUVENAL -
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL