Juvénal citations

“We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.”
Nunc patimur longae pacis mala, saevior armis luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem.

“Dedicate one’s life to truth.”
Vitam impendere vero.

“No man will get my help in robbery, and therefore no governor will take me on his staff”
me nemo ministro fur erit, atque ideo nulli comes exeo

“The Indian tiger lives in perfect peace with the fierce
Tigress, and savage bears live together in harmony.”
Indica tigris agit rabida cum tigride pacem perpetuam, saevis inter se convenit ursis.

“Honesty is praised and starves.”
Probitas laudatur et alget

“Virtue is the one and only nobility.”
Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.

“The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things — bread and circuses!”
Nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses.

“Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth living.”
Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.

“Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.”
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.

“But who will guard the guardians themselves?”
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

“What's Rome to me, what business have I there?
I who can neither lie, nor falsely swear?
Nor praise my patron's undeserving rhymes,
Nor yet comply with him, nor with his times?”

“But you will soon pay for it, my friend, when you take off your clothes, and with distended stomach carry your peacock into the bath undigested! Hence a sudden death, and an intestate old age; the new and merry tale runs the round of every dinner-table, and the corpse is carried forth to burial amid the cheers of enraged friends!”
Poena tamen praesens, cum tu deponis amictus turgidus et crudum pavonem in balnea portas. hinc subitae mortes atque intestata senectus; it nova nec tristis per cunctas fabula cenas: ducitur iratis plaudendum funus amicis.

“The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief's face.”
Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.

“Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.”
Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, quam quod ridiculos homines facit.

“You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.”
Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.

“No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.”
Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.

“We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.”
Hic vivimus ambitiosa paupertate omnes.

“The greatest reverence is due the young.”
Maxima debetur puero reverentia.

“The question is not put how far extends
His piety, but what he yearly spends;
Quick, to the business; how he lives and eats;
How largely gives; how splendidly he treats;
How many thousand acres feed his sheep;
What are his rents; what servants does he keep?
The account is soon cast up; the judges rate
Our credit in the court by our estate.”

“It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.”
Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat res angusta domi.

“MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO”
Mens sana in corpore sano.

“If your stars go against you, the fantastic size of your cock will get you precisely nowhere, however much Virro may have drooled at the spectacle of your naked charms, though love-letters come in by the dozen, imploring your favors.”

“Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.”