Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?
JuvenalStichwörter: censorship
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!
JuvenalNever does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JuvenalStichwörter: nature
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
Juvenalorandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.
JuvenalStichwörter: health
It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.
Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,
which places the length of life last among nature’s blessings,
which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,
does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believes
the hardships and savage labors of Hercules better than
the satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.
I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;
For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue.
Sit mens sana in corpore sano
(a healthy mind in a healthy body)
Panem et circenses.
JuvenalStichwörter: entertainment
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
JuvenalMust this with farce and folly rack my
head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,
Whine me dead?
Stichwörter: philosophical
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