Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
CATO THE YOUNGERDo not expect good from another’s death.
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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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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