Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)

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

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One
bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
[Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti.]

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
[Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti.]

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those
who denounce what they do themselves.)
[Lat., read more

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those
who denounce what they do themselves.)
[Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?]

What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent
of the undertaking and the accomplishment read more

What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent
of the undertaking and the accomplishment of your wish?
[Lat., Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te conatus non poeniteat
votique peracti?]

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or
the display of family portraits, O read more

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or
the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
[Lat., Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo,
Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus.]