All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
CATO THE YOUNGERSpeak briefly and to the point.
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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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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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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.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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