Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. -Juvenal

 

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.


-Juvenal
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This quote is just one of 24 total Juvenal quotes in our collection. Juvenal is known for saying 'Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.' as well as some of the following quotes.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal
292

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Juvenal
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Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid of rest, carries his own accuser in his breast. -Juvenal
225

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

Juvenal
212

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal
211
Be gentle with the young. -Juvenal
205

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Juvenal
187