In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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 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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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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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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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
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