Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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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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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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