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
dinner gains fine
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
men purses empty
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
mother giving-up law
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
money smell may
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
laying-down scripture love-one-another
To lay down one's life for the truth.
prudence absent
No god is absent where prudence dwells.
guidance protection prudence
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.
prudence
One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
traveller beggar
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
excess wealth
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
hatred healed wounds
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
gentleman farmers
Be a gentleman farmer.
giving reason-why eating
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
heirs wealth profit
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.