A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
CATO THE YOUNGERBitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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 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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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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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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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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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 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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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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