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.
CATO THE YOUNGERFor it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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