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
eye ears youth
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
white laughing clubs
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.
mistake youth allowance
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
men play apes
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
men
Men who only live to eat.
men wicked wicked-man
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
giving joy pleasure
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
path life-is virtue
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
wisdom fortune conqueror
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
women cases bottom
There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]
drinking age fleeting
For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.
powerful children reason
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
oysters differences midnight
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
desire add zenith
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.