Juvenal
Juvenal
Decimus Iūnius Iuvenālis , known in English as Juvenal /ˈdʒuːvənəl/, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the Satires. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD fix his terminus post quem...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
heaven greek hunger
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
happiness bears overcoming
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. [Lat., Ducimus autem Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae, Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra.]
prayer health mind
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]
men giving
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself. [Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di, Carior est illis homo quam sibi.]
men wealth fortune
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
evil unanimity
There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]
death seven inches
Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death.
men plates expenses
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
years
To have slaved so many years for nothing!
father cuisine
To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.
depraved
No one ever suddenly became depraved.
shadow vices deceiving
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
heart race tears
Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.
vices popularity
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.