Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
CATO THE YOUNGERA honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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 think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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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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