Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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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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The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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 will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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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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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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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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.
CATO THE YOUNGER