Speak briefly and to the point.
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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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