Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
CATO THE YOUNGERShould 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.]
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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