In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.
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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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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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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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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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