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.
CATO THE YOUNGERIn doing nothing men learn to do evil.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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