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
guilty thunder pale
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
money men credit
Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest. [Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area, Tantum habet et fidei.]
giving soul promise
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
world sincerity assurance
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
heirs wealth profit
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
gentleman farmers
Be a gentleman farmer.
hatred healed wounds
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
prudence
One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
prudence absent
No god is absent where prudence dwells.
men purses empty
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
dinner gains fine
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
The itch of scribbling.
wife dowry objects
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
circles example authority
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.