Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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