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.
nemo depravity depraved
Nobody ever became depraved all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]
grapes contact
The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.
mother giving-up law
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
money smell may
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
laying-down scripture love-one-another
To lay down one's life for the truth.
guidance protection prudence
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.
traveller beggar
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
excess wealth
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
gentleman farmers
Be a gentleman farmer.
giving reason-why eating
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
world sincerity assurance
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
giving soul promise
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.