I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
CATO THE YOUNGERI know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
CATO THE YOUNGERThose magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERSpeak briefly and to the point.
CATO THE YOUNGERFor 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.
CATO THE YOUNGERI think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERNever travel by sea when you can go by land.
CATO THE YOUNGERI will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
CATO THE YOUNGERRegard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
CATO THE YOUNGERA honest man is seldom a vagrant.
CATO THE YOUNGERI would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
CATO THE YOUNGERBitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
CATO THE YOUNGERTo 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.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
CATO THE YOUNGERFlee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
CATO THE YOUNGERSince 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.
CATO THE YOUNGER