Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
CATO THE YOUNGERI would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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