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
men crime found
Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?
pain night fierce
Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.
mean bravery prison
Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.
autumn greedy harvest
Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.
appearance shows
Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
watches
Who watches the watchmen?
laughter mind poverty
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
light shining borrowing
Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.
men long delay
When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]
men poverty trials
Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]
care riches estates
The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.
action
The act of God injures no one.
ambition height tables
To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]
home poverty ability
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]