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
laying-down scripture love-one-another
To lay down one's life for the truth.
prudence absent
No god is absent where prudence dwells.
guidance protection prudence
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.
prudence
One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
traveller beggar
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
excess wealth
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
hatred healed wounds
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
gentleman farmers
Be a gentleman farmer.
giving reason-why eating
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
heirs wealth profit
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
world sincerity assurance
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
giving soul promise
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
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.]
guilty thunder pale
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.