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.
CATO THE YOUNGERThose magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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 know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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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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