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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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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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 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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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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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
CATO THE YOUNGER