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

Cato the Younger

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Appreciation Biter Fruit Root Study Sweet Teacher
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Crime Effect Encourage Magistrate Prevent
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
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Dream Fear Hope Image Regard Since
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
Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Do Once Promise Twice
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
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.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Comfort Pain People Some Suffer Without
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
It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Drink Eaten Feel Like Make Much
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Act Best Charity Keep Memories New Refresh Way
Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Land never Sea Travel
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
It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Almost Considerable Differ Difference Differences Else Everything Men Often Remarkable Thinking
A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Honest Men Seldom Vagrant
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

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

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