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 fortune enjoy
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
men wealth fortune
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
wisdom fortune conqueror
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
wisdom overcoming fortune
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
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.
lying poverty depth
Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
fear desire reason
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?