Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGER
Speak briefly and to the point.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO THE YOUNGER