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
virtues
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
vices virtue deceiving
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
peace path virtue
One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.
integrity virtue
Integrity is praised, and starves.
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.]
virtue nobility
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
path life-is virtue
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
virtue glory thirst
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
mean prison virtue
Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]
rewards virtue fame
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?
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.