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.
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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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I think the first wisdom is 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 best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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.
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It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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