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
taught imitation depraved
We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]
bottom lawsuit
There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.
men wife kind
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
men coats may
There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.
wise men desire
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
teacher dishes
The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.
faces attraction
The face, not the woman is the attraction.
virtue nobility
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
cry kindred lost
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
war luxury
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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.
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.
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.]
path life-is virtue
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]