The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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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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 would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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