I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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