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.
CATO THE YOUNGERBitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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 think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
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For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.
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