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 YOUNGERThe Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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 Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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