black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Juvenal

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENAL

Possess Writing
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL

Difficult World Writing
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JUVENAL

Fortune Matter
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
JUVENAL

Beget Failure Nature Poem
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
JUVENAL

Crime Crown Different Result
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL

Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
JUVENAL

Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL

House Servant
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
JUVENAL

Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
JUVENAL

Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Juvenal Quotes