I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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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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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
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