Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
CATO THE YOUNGERRegard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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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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