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
guilty thunder pale
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
deeds guilty crime
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
mind faults guilty
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender
men prison guilty
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
heart men guilt
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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.]
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.]
punishment evil guilt
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]
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.