Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
CATO THE YOUNGERTo 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.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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