The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE YOUNGERIn doing nothing men learn to do evil.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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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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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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