Do not expect good from another’s death.
CATO THE YOUNGERIn doing nothing men learn to do evil.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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 think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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 will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
CATO THE YOUNGER