Quote

Who is to guard the guards themselves?

Juvenal

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Juvenal
Poet
Writer
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Guards
Guard
Awareness

More quotes by Juvenal

Image
Wisdom is the winner over good luck.
Juvenal
Image
Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
Juvenal
Image
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Juvenal
Image
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
Juvenal
Image
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
Juvenal
Image
He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
Juvenal
Image
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
Juvenal
Image
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.
Juvenal
Image
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
Juvenal
Image
Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
Juvenal
Image
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
Juvenal
Image
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.
Juvenal
Image
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
Juvenal
Image
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
Juvenal
Image
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
Juvenal
Image
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
Juvenal
Image
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
Juvenal
Image
The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.
Juvenal
Image
When the mischief is done the door is shut.
Juvenal
Image
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
Juvenal