This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
CATO THE YOUNGERThe best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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.]
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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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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