Who watches the Watchmen?
By Juvenal
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
By Juvenal
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
By Juvenal
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
By Juvenal
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
By Juvenal
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
By Juvenal
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
By Juvenal
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
By Juvenal
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
By Juvenal
Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
By Juvenal
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
By Juvenal
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
By Juvenal
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
By Juvenal
Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
By Juvenal
So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
By Juvenal
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
By Juvenal
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
By Juvenal
Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
By Juvenal
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
By Juvenal
Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games.
By Juvenal
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
By Juvenal
What is the use of your pedigrees?
By Juvenal
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
By Juvenal
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
By Juvenal
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
By Juvenal
Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
By Juvenal
Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses.
By Juvenal
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
By Juvenal
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!
By Juvenal
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses
By Juvenal
