Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
CATO THE YOUNGERBlessed 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.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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The 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.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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