Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
CATO THE YOUNGERA honest man is seldom a vagrant.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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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.
CATO THE YOUNGER