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.
CATO THE YOUNGERDo not expect good from another’s death.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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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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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 will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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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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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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