In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
CATO THE YOUNGERAll have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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