I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
CATO THE YOUNGERDo not expect good from another’s death.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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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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To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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