(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

(218 votes)   What is the use of your pedigrees?

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(206 votes)   Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(149 votes)   The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(138 votes)   Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(137 votes)   Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(122 votes)   No one every suddenly became depraved.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(106 votes)   They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(82 votes)   Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(78 votes)   Every great house is full of haughty servants.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(71 votes)   Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(71 votes)   We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(66 votes)   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.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(63 votes)   How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(55 votes)   Wisdom overcomes fortune.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(54 votes)   Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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