It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
CATO THE YOUNGERIt will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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