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.
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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
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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 would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Blessed 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.
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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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