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
deeds guilty crime
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
fruit crime remorse
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
men crime he-man
Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
men crime
What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?
men infamous crime
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
guilt crime
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
deeds guilty crime
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]
men crime found
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?
crowns crime crosses
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
assuming crime audacious
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.
bears commit crime crime-and-criminals cross price wears
Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
virtues
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
command
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.