Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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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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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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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