Juvenal Quotes

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Be gentle with the young.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix)

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

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!

Who will guard the guards themselves? (quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.