This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
CATO THE YOUNGERWise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
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