black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

Juvenal

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
JUVENAL

Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL

Difficult World Writing
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
JUVENAL

Crime Fruit One Liner
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
JUVENAL

Body Health Mind Pray
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENAL

Possess Writing
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENAL

Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENAL

Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JUVENAL

Nature Wisdom
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
JUVENAL

Crime Crown Different Result
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake

Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Juvenal Quotes