Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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