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.
CATO THE YOUNGERThose magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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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