Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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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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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.
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