Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERI would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
CATO THE YOUNGERDon’t promise twice what you can do at once.
CATO THE YOUNGERThe best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE YOUNGERA honest man is seldom a vagrant.
CATO THE YOUNGERIn doing nothing men learn to do evil.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
CATO THE YOUNGERSpeak briefly and to the point.
CATO THE YOUNGERBitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
CATO THE YOUNGERIn conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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.
CATO THE YOUNGERRegard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
CATO THE YOUNGERI think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERI know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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.]
CATO THE YOUNGERSome 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