I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
CATO THE YOUNGERIt 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.
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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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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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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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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