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.
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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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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Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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