Juvenal Quotations | Page 2

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

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

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

To lay down one's life for the truth.

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.