I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERI think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERRegard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
CATO THE YOUNGERTo say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
CATO THE YOUNGERBy Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERIn conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
CATO THE YOUNGERGood-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
CATO THE YOUNGERFor 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.
CATO THE YOUNGERFlee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
CATO THE YOUNGERSome 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.
CATO THE YOUNGERSince 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.
CATO THE YOUNGERThis 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.
CATO THE YOUNGERI will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
CATO THE YOUNGERDo not expect good from another’s death.
CATO THE YOUNGER