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.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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 know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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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