All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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