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.
CATO THE YOUNGERBy Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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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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To 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.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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