I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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