Juvenal Mean Quotations

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

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