Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
CATO THE YOUNGER
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.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
CATO THE YOUNGER