This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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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 think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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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.
CATO THE YOUNGER