I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
CATO THE YOUNGERI think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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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 doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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