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The Sixteen Satires QUOTES

The Sixteen Satires QUOTES

1 " Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another. "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

2 " Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who will guard the guards? "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

3 " Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers? "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

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

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

5 " It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.
Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,
which places the length of life last among nature’s blessings,
which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,
does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believes
the hardships and savage labors of Hercules better than
the satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.
I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;
For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue. "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

6 " 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 , The Sixteen Satires

7 " It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin. "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

8 " Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

9 " 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 , The Sixteen Satires

10 " For no deity is held in such reverence amongst us as Wealth; though as yet, O baneful money, thou hast no temple of thine own; not yet have we reared altars to Money in like manner as we worship Peace and Honour, Victory and Virtue "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

11 " Benign Philosophy, by degrees, strips from us most of our vices, and all our mistakes; it is she that first teaches us the right. "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

12 " Had we but wisdom, thou wouldst have no Divinity, O Fortune: it is we that make thee into a Goddess! "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

13 " Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who watches the watchmen themselves? "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

14 " show me the apartment 235 that lets you sleep! In this city sleep costs millions, and that’s the root of the trouble. "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

15 " there is nothing that divine Majesty will not believe concerning itself when lauded to the skies! "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

16 " Duas tantum res anxius optat, Panem et circenses, by the Roman satirist Juvenal. "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

17 " Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted. "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

18 " odi hanc ego quae repetit uoluitque Palaemonis artem seruata semper lege et ratione loquendi ignotosque mihi tenet antiquaria uersus nec curanda uiris. "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

19 " Qus custodiet ipsos custodes "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires

20 " count it the greatest of all sins to prefer life to honour, and to lose, for the sake of living, all that makes life worth having. "

― Juvenal , The Sixteen Satires