Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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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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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues 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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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