Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO THE YOUNGERFor 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.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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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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 doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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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