Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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 primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
CATO THE YOUNGER






