Blessed 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.
CATO THE YOUNGERThe best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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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.
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I think the first wisdom is 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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