Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
CATO THE YOUNGER
All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government–a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.
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The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
CATO THE YOUNGER