“Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
“If on your guards your lingering hopes repose,
Your guards are men, and men you've made your foes”
The Conspiracy of Kings (1792)
Context: Once draw the sword; its burning point shall bring
To thy quick nerves a never-ending sting;
The blood they shed thy weight of wo shall swell,
And their grim ghosts for ever with thee dwell. Learn hence, ye tyrants, ere ye learn too late,
Of all your craft th' inevitable fate.
The hour is come, the world's unclosing eyes
Discern with rapture where its wisdom lies;
From western heav'ns th' inverted Orient springs,
The morn of man, the dreadful night of kings.
Dim, like the day-struck owl, ye grope in light,
No arm for combat, no resource in sight;
If on your guards your lingering hopes repose,
Your guards are men, and men you've made your foes;
If to your rocky ramparts ye repair,
De Launay's fate can tell your fortune there.
No turn, no shift, no courtly arts avail,
Each mask is broken, all illusions fail;
Driv'n to your last retreat of shame and fear,
One counsel waits you, one relief is near :
By worth internal, rise to self-wrought fame,
Your equal rank, your human kindred claim;
'Tis Reason's choice, 'tis Wisdom's final plan,
To drop the monarch and assume the man.
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.”
Variant: The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Source: Meditations
Solón
(-638–-558 BC) Athenian legislator
Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 5, p. 25.
“I would ask you all to be on your guard against the enemy within.”
Clement Attlee
(1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
There are those who would stop at nothing to injure our economy and our defence. The price of liberty is still eternal vigilance. I know what a fine part the trade unionists of this country have played in our recovery effort. When they are asked to take unofficial action, which may hurt this country, let them just consider carefully whether the motives of those who ask them to strike are really concerned with the interests of the workers.
Broadcast (30 July 1950), quoted in The Times (31 July 1950), p. 4
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