What did Juvenal mean by: The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires. Juvenal Poet · Italy Copy
+ Wisdom triumphs over chance. Author, June 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Chance, Triumph, Wisdom, 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
+ 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
+ Be gentle with the young. Author, September 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Care, Compassion, Guidance, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Belief, Power, Praise, 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
+ This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Authority, Desire, Satisfaction, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. Author, October 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Deception, Vice, Virtue, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation 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
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
