Juvenal ✓

(0055–0200) poet Ancient Rome

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[Wikidata] Wikimedia disambiguation page... | [Wikipedia] Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet. He is the author of the Satires, a collection of satirical poems. The details of Juvenal's life are unclear, but references in his works to people from the late first and early second centuries suggest that he began writing no

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• The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. Class
• Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games. Anxieties
• A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate Goads
• For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve,… Breathed
• Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. Greek
• Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from… All
• All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts. All
• I only feel, but want the power to paint. Feel
• It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich. Die
• The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous. Greatest
• Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender Becomes
• This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason Command
• I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. Inspirational
• Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. Act
• Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind. Abject
• It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge Little
• Satire is what closes Saturday night. Closes
• In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons. Difficult
• There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. Charm
• Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. Common
• Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face Face
• The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. Inspirational
• What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? Cruel
• Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. Deceives
• Common sense among men of fortune is rare. Among

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