Do not expect good from another’s death.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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