The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE YOUNGERThe 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.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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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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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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