Latin for “a healthy mind in a healthy body.” Juvenal says that if you must pray for something, pray for these, not for wealth, power or a long life.
Read the full explanation →People who once ran their own government now only want two things, free food and entertainment. Rulers who supply both can keep power without being questioned.
Read the full explanation →Latin for “Who will guard the guards themselves?” Today it asks who keeps the powerful honest when they are the ones meant to keep everyone else in line.
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About Juvenal
Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known as Juvenal, wrote sixteen savage satires attacking the corruption, luxury and hypocrisy of Rome in the early second century.
Little is known about his life. His poems gave us several phrases still in use, including “bread and circuses” (panem et circenses).