+ 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
+ One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.] Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Power, Protection, Wisdom, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Many have an irresistible itch for writing. Author, June 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Creativity, Expression, Passion, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Grief, Loss, Materialism, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Dedicate one’s life to truth. Author, August 17, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Dedication, Life, Truth, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part. Author, July 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Juvenal, Control, Deception, Power, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Poverty, Ridicule, Struggle, 0 Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Juvenal, Poverty, Ridicule, Struggle, 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
