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
nemo depravity depraved
Nobody ever became depraved all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]
lust depraved
No one every suddenly became depraved.
depraved
No one ever suddenly became depraved.
depraved
No one becomes depraved all at once.
taught imitation depraved
We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]
example depraved
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
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
faults bears
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
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.