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
revenge mind pleasure
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
revenge mind littles
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
revenge thinking fool
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
revenge rejoice
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
revenge mind littles
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
fools itself life revenge sweeter
Revenge is sweet, sweeter than life itself - so say fools
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.]