Quotes of Juvenal

Juvenal

Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis), who lived in the years 60-127 CE. Roman satirical poet.

• “Greatest deference is owed to the child”
  • latin: [Maxima debetur puero reverentia]
  • source: Juvenal, Satires, XIV.47
• “The censor forgives the crows and harasses the doves”
  • latin: [Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas]
  • source: Juvenal, Satires, II, 63
• “Bread and circuses”
  • latin: [Panem et circenses]
  • source: Juvenal, Satires, 10.77–81
• “There’s no hope of harmony if your mother-in-law is alive”
  • latin: [Desperanda tibi salva Concordia socru]
  • source: Juvenal, Satires, VI, 232
• “The love of money increases as wealth itself increases”
  • latin: [Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit]
  • source: Juvenal, Satires, 14.139
• “I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement”
  • latin: [Hoc volo, sic iubeo; sit pro ratione voluntas]
  • description: mocking words spoken by a wife to a husband who refuses to crucify an innocent slave.
  • source: Juvenal, Satires, 6, l. 223
• “They pretend to be virtuous and live in the festival of Bacchus”
  • latin: [Curias simulant, Bacchanalia vivunt]
  • source: Juvenal, Satires, 2, 1-35, 149-170
• “A healthy mind in a healthy body”
  • latin: [Mens sana in corpore sano]
  • source: Juvenal, Satires, 10.356

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