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
mean men way
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
intercourse effects
See the effect of commercial intercourse.
bears savages agree
Savage bears agree with one another.
pedigree
Of what avail are pedigrees?
sorrow finishing strokes
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
insults-you insulted ifs
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
house lasts disgrace
He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.
children young gentle
Be gentle with the young.
revenge mind littles
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
wisdom overcoming fortune
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
peace mind peace-of-mind
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
guilt vices proportion
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]
women mind nemo
The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]
long purses
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.