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
character wicked
No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
men evil wicked
No man ever became very wicked all at once.
ravens wicked innocent
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
men wicked wicked-man
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
contented license sin
No man's contented just so much to sin - As you may license him
bird black earth rare
A rare bird on earth, and very like a black swan.
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.
disease flocks whole
From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.
poverty traveler robbers
The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]
vices worst leap
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap
faults bears
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
nice italian hell
No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.