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.
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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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 in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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