This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
CATO THE YOUNGERDon’t promise twice what you can do at once.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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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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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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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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For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.
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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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