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
shadow vices deceiving
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
heart race tears
Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.
vices popularity
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
arrows dowry
The arrows are from her dowry.
block abuse
The abuse of cabmen in a block.
want rich get-rich
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
guilt crime
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
views public-opinion currents
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
want transportation ifs
Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.
tyrants natural natural-death
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
missing vines widowed
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
secret executioners shaking
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
ravens wicked innocent
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
age incessant old-age
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!