What did Juvenal mean by: Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse. Juvenal Poet · Italy Copy
+ No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly. Author, June 14, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Behavior, Evil, Progression, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. Author, October 8, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Order, Reason, Will, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap Author, August 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Progression, Self-control, Vice, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ No one becomes depraved all at once. Author, August 31, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Corruption, Progression, Transformation, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Defiance, Loyalty., Revenge, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Appearance, Status, Taboo, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian’s tax on ordure.] Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Humor, Taxation, Wealth, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue. Author, September 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Deception, Vice, Virtue, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
