Speak briefly and to the point.
CATO THE YOUNGERThose magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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 will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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