All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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 know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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