Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
CATO THE YOUNGERI would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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