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 YOUNGERA honest man is seldom a vagrant.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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For 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.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Good-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.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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