Juvenal Quotes
Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?
Juvenal. Juvenal and Persius. Translated by G. G. Ramsay, Harvard University Press, 1918.
See Hillary Rodham Clinton who used part of this proverb for a book title.
Adams and Benjamin Franklin served as Ministers to France to obtain assistance for the Revolution. Franklin was masterly successful in arranging French economic and military assistance. Adams however was not. He was very uncomfortable in Paris and the sexuality was particularly distressing to him. Franklin, in contrast, not only was not distressed but was a favorite amongst French ladies even at his advanced age.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Latin: [ˈdɛkɪmʊs ˈjuːniʊs jʊwɛˈnaːlɪs]), known in English as Juvenal (/ˈdʒuːvənəl/ JOO-vən-əl), was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD. He is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the Satires. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late first and early second centuries AD fix his earliest date of composition. One recent scholar argues that his first book was published in 100 or 101. Because of a reference to a recent political figure, his fifth and final surviving book must date from after 127.
