Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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