Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
CATO THE YOUNGERNever travel by sea when you can go by land.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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