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.
CATO THE YOUNGERDo not expect good from another’s death.
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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.
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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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