The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
CATO THE YOUNGERBlessed 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.
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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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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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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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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.
CATO THE YOUNGER






