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.
CATO THE YOUNGERThose magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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