What did Juvenal mean by: No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others. Juvenal Poet · Italy Copy
+ Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. Author, October 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Deception, Vice, Virtue, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Emotion, Humanity, Strength, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Ambition, Identity, Risk, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. – Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Double standards, Hypocrisy, Justice, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ To eat at another’s table is your ambition’s height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.] Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Ambition, Envy, Rivalry, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Honesty’s praised, then left to freeze. Author, September 30, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Betrayal, Consequences, Honesty, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Limits the Romans’ anxieties to two things – bread and games. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Control, Distraction, Power, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Luxury destroys more efficiently than war. Author, July 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Destruction, Luxury, War, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Don’t wait to be happy to laugh… You may die and never have laughed. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
