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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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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.
CATO THE YOUNGER