The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction. Juvenal More Quotes by Juvenal More Quotes From Juvenal We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. Juvenal depraved imitation taught 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. Juvenal grief blow men Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody. Juvenal prison bravery mean Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Juvenal fierce pain night Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime? Juvenal crime found men In their palate alone is their reason of existence. Juvenal palate eating reason To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. Juvenal height ambition tables The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy. Juvenal punishment tyrants envy Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority. Juvenal circles authority example Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. Juvenal one-thing nature Savage bears keep at peace with one another. Juvenal savages bears peace Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots. Juvenal beast spots kind But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded! Juvenal incessant old-age age Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] Juvenal innocent ravens wicked Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death. Juvenal natural-death tyrants natural He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] Juvenal public-opinion currents views He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act. Juvenal crime guilt Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires. Juvenal impulse blind desire Let him love none and be by none beloved! Juvenal beloved Be a gentleman farmer. Juvenal farmers gentleman
