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.
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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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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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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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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