What did Juvenal mean by: The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy. - Juvenal Poet · Italy Copy
+ I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. Feraz Zeid, October 8, 2023December 26, 2023, Juvenal, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends. Feraz Zeid, August 18, 2023December 12, 2023, Juvenal, Friendship, Money, Wealth, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many. Feraz Zeid, June 13, 2023December 12, 2023, Juvenal, Excess, Wealth, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Juvenal, Promise, Soul, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.] Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Juvenal, Beard, Lions, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded! Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Juvenal, Age, Getting Older, Incessant, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ What is more cruel than a tyrant’s ear? Feraz Zeid, August 3, 2023December 12, 2023, Juvenal, Ears, Tyranny, Tyrants, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Juvenal, Envy, Punishment, Tyrants, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user. - William Morris Designer · England
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art. - Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure. - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain