In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
CATO THE YOUNGERFor it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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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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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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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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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