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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.
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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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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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