Juvenal

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

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

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

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

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

Integrity is praised, and starves.

Who is to guard the guards themselves?

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.