Juvenal

Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno”
Juvenal___Satires
Black Swan

It is difficult not to write satire.

We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

The Latin phrase cacoethes scribendi means ‘an irresistible desire to write’ (taken from the Roman writer Juvenal).

Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.

It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.

Nam si tibi sidera cessant, nil faciet longi mensura incognita nervi, quamvis te nudum spumanti Virro labello viderit et blandae adsidue densaeque tabellae sollicitent, autos gar ephelketai andra kinaidos.

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Böyle azgınlıkları vardır halkın;
Her ülke, nefret eder komşusunun Tanrılarından
Ve inanır gerçekliğine, yalnız kendi Tanrılarının.

Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.

Must this with farce and folly rack my
head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,
Whine me dead?