What did Juvenal mean by: Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak Juvenal Poet · Italy Copy
+ Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends. Author, August 18, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Friendship, Self-interest, Wealth, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate Author, October 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Hate, Mercy, Shame, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ When talent fails, indignation writes the verse. Author, August 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Failure, Indignation, Talent, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.] Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Beauty, Purity, Union, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Even savage animals can agree among themselves. Author, September 1, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Consensus, Cooperation, Unity, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Insignificance, Mortality, Perspective, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander. Author, September 18, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Ambition, Expansion, Leadership, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Culture, Education, Shame, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
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
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
