Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERFlee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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