By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.
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To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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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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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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