+ Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Chance, Fools, Fortune, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Ambition, Courage, Success, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Ambition, Fortune, Humor, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.] Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Fortune, Wisdom, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others. Author, September 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Jealousy, Recognition, Self-worth, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Protection, Purity, Youth, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Luxury destroys more efficiently than war. Author, July 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Destruction, Luxury, War, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Envy, Punishment, Tyranny, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. Read explanation Jean Piaget Psychologist · Switzerland
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too. Jean Craighead George