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

- Juvenal

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

- Juvenal

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

- Juvenal

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

- Juvenal

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

- Juvenal

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

- Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

- Juvenal

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

- Juvenal

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

- Juvenal