This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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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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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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