Juvenal

Poet Satirist Ancient Rome 60 – 130

Roman satirical poet whose sharp critiques of society remain powerful and relevant.

384 quotes

"To endure is the beginning of all things."
Perseverance
"Even the poor can create beautiful things."
Art
"A man is more prone to jealousy than to love."
Love
"We should fear the man who fears nobody."
Courage
"Wisdom begins at the end."
Wisdom
"Time devours all things."
Time
"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."
Fear
"No passion is stronger than the love of money."
Money
"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written."
Success
"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."
Happiness
"He who is everywhere is nowhere."
Solitude
"Better a poor man in good health than a rich man in pain."
Health
"The poor man's tears fall on deaf ears."
Justice
"Education is the most powerful tool for change."
Education
"A man should so live as if he were already dead."
Philosophy
"The seeds of great events are ever small."
Change
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Friendship
"There is nothing in life so important as good health."
Health
"Man is a creature of habit."
Wisdom
"The wise man adapts himself to circumstances."
Wisdom
"Envy eats nothing but its own heart."
"Death cannot come to a man who is already dead."
Death
"The gods sell all things to labor."
Work
"I would rather have a poor man's honesty than a rich man's lies."
Truth
"Constant practice is the price of perfection."
Perseverance
"The tyrant may rule the body, but not the mind."
Freedom
"Virtue is its own reward."
"Money was not made to be hoarded, but to be used."
Money
"The corrupt magistrate fears the honest judge."
Justice
"No man is happy unless he believes himself to be happy."
Happiness