Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO THE YOUNGERThis is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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 think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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 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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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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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Since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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