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
writing sick mind
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
writing satire difficult
It is difficult not to write satire.
writing irresistible
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
writing world satire
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
writing insane possession
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
writing
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
writing talent failing
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
incurable itch possesses writers-and-writing
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
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.