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
purple gains grapes
The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]
grief men blow
Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]
fear desire reason
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
lying poverty depth
Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
nice italian hell
No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
faults bears
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
vices worst leap
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap