A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
CATO THE YOUNGERSpeak briefly and to the point.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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 will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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.
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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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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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