This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
CATO THE YOUNGERArt, 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.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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