In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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