Juvenal

Juvenal (c. 55 – 128), full name Decimus Junius Juvenalis, was a celebrated Roman poet and satirist, born at Aquinum. He was a friend of Martial and contemporary of Statius and Quintilian. His satires, 16 in number, are written in indignant scorn of the vices of the Romans under the Empire, and in the descriptions of which the historian finds a portrait of the manners and morals of the time.

Wisdom & Quotes

• We should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.(Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.)
• Honesty is praised and starves.
• Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.
• No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.
• No man will get my help in robbery, and therefore no governor will take me on his staff.
• What's Rome to me, what business have I there?

I who can neither lie, nor falsely swear?
Nor praise my patron's undeserving rhymes,
Nor yet comply with him, nor with his times?

• Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
• It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
• We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
• No bad man is ever happy.
• Now we are suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more destructive than war, has engrossed us, and avenges the vanquished world.
• But who will guard the guardians themselves?
• Virtue is the one and only nobility.
• Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth living.
• A lucky man is rarer than a white cow.
• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
• A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
• Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
• Revenge is the poor delight of little minds.
• No one becomes depraved all at once.
• An inveterate and incurable itch for writing besets many and grows old with their sick hearts.
• Be gentle with the young.
• The greatest reverence is due the young.
• The Indian tiger lives in perfect peace with the fierce

Tigress, and savage bears live together in harmony.

Epictetus