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
two people circus
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!
food two people
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
forgiveness humble people
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
people reverse
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
people poverty cloaks
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
two people long
Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.
bread circus people sports
Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
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?