Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERI think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government–a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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