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.
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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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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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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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