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.
CATO THE YOUNGERSome 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.
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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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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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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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