Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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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 know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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