Juvenal Men Quotations

Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]

The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.

Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest. [Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area, Tantum habet et fidei.]

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

No man becomes bad all at once.

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself. [Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di, Carior est illis homo quam sibi.]

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. [Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.]

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.

There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

Men who only live to eat.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

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