In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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