I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
CATO THE YOUNGERA honest man is seldom a vagrant.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Art, 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.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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