I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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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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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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