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
fame wretched
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
rewards virtue fame
The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]
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.
rewards virtue fame
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?
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.
contented license sin
No man's contented just so much to sin - As you may license him
nice italian hell
No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
lying poverty depth
Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
fear desire reason
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
grief men blow
Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]
purple gains grapes
The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]
circles example authority
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.