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| Juvenal
A brute without a single redeeming point.A countenance inconceivably forbidding.A healthy mind in a healthy body. A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. A third Cato has dropped from the skies. A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth. A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate. Acorns were good till bread was found. All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows; and bid him go to hell – to hell he goes. All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it. All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. Am I always to be a mere listener? Shall I never reply? An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many. An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed. Be a gentleman farmer. Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots. Believe it to be the greatest of all infamies, to prefer your existence to your honor, and for the sake of life to lose every inducement to live. Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded! By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. Common sense among men of fortune is rare. Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge. Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men. Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm. Eloquence under a threadbare cloak. Every great house is full of saucy servants. Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest. Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason! Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death. For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself. For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. From the disease of one the whole flock perishes. Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. Go, madman! rush over the wildest alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody. He claims a monopoly in friendship. He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial halter. He has nibbled at the bay. He is a Jack of all trades. He only does it to annoy you. He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act. He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house. Here we all live in ambitious poverty. I only feel, but want the power to paint. I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. If the destructive dice-box has pleasures for the father, the son will be a gambler. If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted. In their palate alone is their reason of existence. Indignation leads to the making of poetry. Integrity is praised and starves. Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich? It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin. It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge. It is hard to abstain from writing satire. It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money. Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires. Let him love none and be by none beloved! Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells. Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white-skinned at the blackamoor. Let us moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth. Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. Many have an irresistible itch for writing. Men who ape the saint and play the sinner. Men who only live to eat. Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. Nature never says one thing, and science another. Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes. No one delights more in revenge than woman. No one ever became thoroughly bad all at once. No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap. No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others. Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself. Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse. Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown. One has no protecting power save prudence. One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue. Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence. Poor and proud.Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. Rare is the union of beauty and purity. Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. Savage bears keep at peace with one another. See the effect of commercial intercourse. She is kept alive on the milk of asses which she takes with her wherever she goes. She stands on tiptoe to be kissed. So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue. Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them; for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. Speak, or be kicked. Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. Such pains they take to look pretty. Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to his bosom? Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice. Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble. That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string. The abuse of cabmen in a block. The arrows are from her dowry. The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled. The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction. The face, not the woman is the attraction. The finishing stroke of all sorrow. The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have. The good, alas! are few: they are scarcely as many as the gates of Thebes or the mouths of the Nile. The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder. The love of money grows as the money itself grows. The love of popularity holds you in a vice. The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner. The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. The price never stood in the way of her inclination. The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant. The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher. The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us. The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. The smell of money is good, come whence it may. The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. The traveler without money will sing before the robber. The verdict acquits the raven, but condemns the dove. The whole family is packed into one trap. The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires. The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own conscience no guilty man is acquitted. Their conversation was brief, and their desire was to be silent. Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt. Their rise is one of difficulty, whose merits are impeded by poverty. There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats. There is great unanimity among the dissolute. There is more of bitterness than good nature in him. There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it. There is no reliance to be placed on appearance. There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. There was not a greater gourmand living. They are safe in their number and their close array. They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. They have learnt life's lessons. They will swear black is white. This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. Those things please more, which are more expensive. Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen. To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having. To have slaved so many years for nothing! To keep up as good a cuisine as your father. To lay down one's life for the truth. To live with the show of a greater income than you have. To snore with wakeful nose. [To pretend to be asleep.] To vex the eyes with forced tears. [Crocodile's tears.] Trust not to outward show. Unhappy man! He frets at the narrow limits of the world. Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. Virtue is praised and freezes. Virtue is the only and true nobility. We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs. We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. We plough the sand on the sea shore. What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt, that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large. When your armor is on, it is too late to retreat. Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse things (than your child)? Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. Who's to look after the keepers? Wisdom triumphs over chance. Would to heaven he had given up to trifles like these all the time which he devoted to cruelty. You kiss away her tears. You may safely leave that matter to take care of itself. You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. [a woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress. |
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