+ Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.] Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Juvenal, Beard, Lions, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue. Feraz Zeid, September 19, 2023December 26, 2023, Juvenal, Shadow, Vices, Virtue, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt Feraz Zeid, September 5, 2023December 24, 2023, Juvenal, Bread, Circus, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ No man ever became very wicked all at once. Feraz Zeid, October 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Juvenal, Evil, Wicked, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Juvenal, Fortune, Wealth, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian’s tax on ordure.] Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Juvenal, Money, Smell, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Juvenal, Art, Hungry, Sky, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue. Feraz Zeid, June 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Juvenal, Path, Peace, Virtue, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature. - Jeannette Walls Journalist · USA
I’m a big believer in luck – the harder you work, the luckier you become. - Jeannette Walls Journalist · USA
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. - Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters. - Gail Carson Levine Author · USA
Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA