Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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 will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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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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