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
insults-you insulted ifs
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
sorrow finishing strokes
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
pedigree
Of what avail are pedigrees?
bears savages agree
Savage bears agree with one another.
intercourse effects
See the effect of commercial intercourse.
mean men way
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
pleasure indulgence moderates
Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
tears minutes duty
Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
virtue glory thirst
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
assuming crime audacious
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.
ruins pillars fame
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
gone passages folly
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
desire blind impulse
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
beloved
Let him love none and be by none beloved!