Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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