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 YOUNGERI know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
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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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