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.
CATO THE YOUNGERWise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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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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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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