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.
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.]
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.
giving reason-why eating
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
dream time feet
The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.
doors done mischief
When the mischief is done the door is shut.
gains expenses livelihood
To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.
please expensive
Those things please more, which are more expensive.
appearance reliance
There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.