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
ambition height tables
To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]
home poverty ability
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]
beard lions pluck
Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
amor increase quantum
The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]
taught imitation depraved
We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]
bottom lawsuit
There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.
retreat too-late late
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
men wife kind
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
men coats may
There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.
wise men desire
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
tongue worst servant
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
teacher dishes
The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.
rewards virtue fame
The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]
selfishness luxurious
Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]