The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government–a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave.
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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