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.
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.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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