Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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