Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
CATO THE YOUNGERDon’t promise twice what you can do at once.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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