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.
CATO THE YOUNGERGood-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.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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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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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 will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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