Speak briefly and to the point.
CATO THE YOUNGERNever travel by sea when you can go by land.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Good-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.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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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 will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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