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
faults bears
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
crowns bears different
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
peace bears savages
Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]
happiness bears overcoming
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. [Lat., Ducimus autem Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae, Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra.]
crowns bears different
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]
bears savages agree
Savage bears agree with one another.
bears commit crime crime-and-criminals cross price wears
Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
virtues
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
command
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
disease flocks whole
From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.
poverty traveler robbers
The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]
vices worst leap
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap
bird black earth rare
A rare bird on earth, and very like a black swan.
nice italian hell
No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.