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
children young gentle
Be gentle with the young.
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.
pleasure indulgence moderates
Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
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.
eye ears youth
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
mistake youth allowance
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
wisdom fortune conqueror
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
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.
cry kindred lost
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
wealthy
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.