Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.
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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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I think the first wisdom is 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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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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