Speak briefly and to the point.
CATO THE YOUNGERAll have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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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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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
CATO THE YOUNGER