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
men wicked wicked-man
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
men
Men who only live to eat.
men play apes
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
mistake youth allowance
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
white laughing clubs
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.
eye ears youth
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
beloved
Let him love none and be by none beloved!
desire blind impulse
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
gone passages folly
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
ruins pillars fame
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
assuming crime audacious
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.
virtue glory thirst
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
tears minutes duty
Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
pleasure indulgence moderates
Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.