I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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