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
men plates expenses
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
death seven inches
Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death.
prayer health mind
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]
happiness bears overcoming
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. [Lat., Ducimus autem Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae, Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra.]
heaven greek hunger
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
money tears lost
Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]
nature one-thing
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]
peace bears savages
Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]
believe power equal
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]
power wish posse
Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]
rome
Everything in Rome has its price.
lizards green may
Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.
swans bird black
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.
children
The greatest respect is owed to a child.