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.]
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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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 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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