This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
CATO THE YOUNGERI will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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