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.
CATO THE YOUNGERWise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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.
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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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