Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
CATO THE YOUNGERWise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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The 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.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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