What did Juvenal mean by: Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. Juvenal Poet · Italy Copy
+ Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold. Author, August 8, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Corruption, Greed, Wealth, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Entertainment, Necessities, Satisfaction, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots. Author, June 25, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Instinct, Protection, Survival, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ No god is absent where prudence dwells. Author, September 15, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Faith, Presence, Wisdom, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Anxiety, Fear, Guilt, 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
+ No man becomes bad all at once. Author, September 27, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Morality, Progression, Transformation, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Beauty, Combination, Virtue, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
