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
faces attraction
The face, not the woman is the attraction.
eclipse pupils tutor
The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.
triumph chance
Wisdom triumphs over chance.
virtue nobility
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
wealthy
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
cry kindred lost
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
war luxury
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
desire add zenith
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.
powerful children reason
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
drinking age fleeting
For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.
women cases bottom
There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]
wisdom fortune conqueror
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
path life-is virtue
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
giving joy pleasure
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.