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.
CATO THE YOUNGERIn conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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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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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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