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.]
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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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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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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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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 think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGER