All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
CATO THE YOUNGERBitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
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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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Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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