Speak briefly and to the point.
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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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 will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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