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
loss medicine mind
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
sweet smell wealth
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
order want madness
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
character wicked
No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
fame wretched
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
writing insane possession
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
ravens censorship dove
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
men poverty ridiculous
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
animal agreement savages
Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
men prison guilty
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
men infamous crime
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
war luxury long
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
men fortune enjoy
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
toss fool wheels
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.