In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
CATO THE YOUNGERIn conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
CATO THE YOUNGERShould 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.]
CATO THE YOUNGERSome 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.
CATO THE YOUNGERI think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERThis is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
CATO THE YOUNGERIn doing nothing men learn to do evil.
CATO THE YOUNGERThe 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.
CATO THE YOUNGERThe best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE YOUNGERArt, 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.
CATO THE YOUNGERIt will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
CATO THE YOUNGERFlee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
CATO THE YOUNGERIt 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 YOUNGERConsider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERDo not expect good from another’s death.
CATO THE YOUNGERBy Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
CATO THE YOUNGERBitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
CATO THE YOUNGER