Speak briefly and to the point.
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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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