Juvenal

"Bread and circuses - that is what the people desire."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"Who will guard the guards themselves?"

"Honesty is praised and starves."

"The greatest respect is due to a man who has little, and asks for nothing."

"A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for."

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

"No one ever lacks a reason for killing himself."

"Maxima debetur puero reverentia - Greatest respect is owed to a child."

"Everything about the past should be distrusted."

"The poor go to bed supperless."

"Rara avis in terris - A rare bird on earth."

"Long experience teaches me this: to ignore the past is to repeat it."

"Few mortals care to study the past."

"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

"Luxury is more deadly than any foe."

"The forger of thunderbolts cannot preserve his own house from thievery."

"Do you think a man is happy because he is merry?"

"Anger is a brief madness."

"Retired obscurity is the best wisdom."

"The rich man's dog eats meat, while the poor man's dog eats bones."

"A slave must obey, even when the commands are difficult."

"Vice thrives in the night."

"Few people can endure prosperity without losing their integrity."

"Nobility is based on virtue, not on birth."

"The wounds caused by words are harder to heal than physical wounds."

"Count no man happy until he is dead."

"Nothing is forbidden to hope."

"The people long eagerly for only two things: bread and circuses."

"He will always be a slave who cannot command his time."