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
laying-down scripture love-one-another
To lay down one's life for the truth.
contented license sin
No man's contented just so much to sin - As you may license him
bird black earth rare
A rare bird on earth, and very like a black swan.
fools itself life revenge sweeter
Revenge is sweet, sweeter than life itself - so say fools
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.
mind prayer sound
Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.
virtues
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
incurable itch possesses writers-and-writing
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
beauty rare-beauty unions
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
health mind body
You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
kindness lying dishonesty
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
giving circus bread
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt
punishment evil guilt
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]
nature earth-day doe
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.