All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
CATO THE YOUNGERI think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
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