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.
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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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For 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.
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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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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 know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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