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- I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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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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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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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 YOUNGERIt 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.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE YOUNGERThe best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERI think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
CATO THE YOUNGERSpeak briefly and to the point.
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
CATO THE YOUNGERI will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
CATO THE YOUNGERIt will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
CATO THE YOUNGERRegard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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.]
CATO THE YOUNGERShould 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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
CATO THE YOUNGERDo not expect good from another’s death.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
CATO THE YOUNGERNever travel by sea when you can go by land.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
CATO THE YOUNGERIn conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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.
CATO THE YOUNGERArt, 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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