Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
CATO THE YOUNGERThose magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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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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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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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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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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