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.
CATO THE YOUNGERThose magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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 doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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