What did Juvenal mean by: Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. – Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. - Juvenal Poet · Italy Copy
+ The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Juvenal, Fishes, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have. Feraz Zeid, August 2, 2023December 12, 2023, Juvenal, Wife, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ The greatest respect is owed to a child. Feraz Zeid, October 30, 2023December 26, 2023, Juvenal, Children, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ For women’s tears are but the sweat of eyes. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 26, 2023, Juvenal, Eye, Sweat, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Juvenal, Beauty, Body, Mind, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Many have an irresistible itch for writing. Feraz Zeid, June 19, 2023December 12, 2023, Juvenal, Irresistible, Writing, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Juvenal, Hardship, Poverty, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
+ Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Juvenal, Art, Food, Philosophy, 0 - Juvenal Poet · Italy
It’s the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. - William Butler Yeats Poet · Ireland
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. - William O. Douglas Lawyer and Jurist · USA
We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others. - William Randolph Hearst Publisher · USA
I’m a free speech bigot. I don’t like censorship; I just don’t think it’s a good thing. - Fred Wilson Venture capitalist
On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully! - Mehmet Murat Ildan Playwright and novelist · Turkey
The Falcon and the Dove sit there together, And th ‘one of them doth prune the others feather. - Michael Drayton Poet · England
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. - Walter Cronkite Journalist · USA