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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Cato the Younger

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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.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Art Breed Company Converse External Good Internal Men Regard Show Sign
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.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Bold Busines Come Dishonest Fit Governwemnt Men Middle People Private Say Some Tyrants
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.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Banquet Carbage Dine Dinner Eat Enjoy Half Lot Other Surpasses Vegetable Vegetables Wish
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Doing Evil Learn Men Nothing
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Act Behold Freedom Men Tyrant
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.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Art Best Concern Discover Enrich Future Many Remembrance Since Immortal
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Dependent Fool Men Wisdom Wise
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.]
CATO THE YOUNGER

Act Anyone Art Attempt Defeat Expression Friend Heart Manner Sam Think True
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.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Blessed Feel Husband Lust Member Swollen Virtuous
Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Do Once Promise Twice
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.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Concern Deceive Government Happiness Instruction Men Naked Nothing Private Strive Themselves
Do not expect good from another’s death.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Another Death Expect Good
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Greatest Restrain Tongue Virtue
By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
CATO THE YOUNGER

Action Art Enjoy Ever Fruit Hurt Labour Liberty Men Own Power Right Understand
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.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Lord Men Over Reign Rightful Save Title Usurpation
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Dream Fear Hope Image Regard Since

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