+ Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold. Author, August 8, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Corruption, Greed, Wealth, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty. Author, July 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Ambition, Lifestyle, Poverty, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Happiness, Livelihood, Sacrifice, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Nobody ever became depraved all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.] Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Degradation, Progression, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Mortality, Peril, Trust, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly. Author, August 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Desire, Speed, Wealth, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Intelligence, Social status, Wealth, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Who is to guard the guards themselves? Author, August 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Accountability, Oversight, Power, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
