A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
CATO THE YOUNGERThe Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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