Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
CATO THE YOUNGERI will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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