I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
CATO THE YOUNGERThe primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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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.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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