In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
CATO THE YOUNGERIn doing nothing men learn to do evil.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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I think the first wisdom is 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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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 will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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