Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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