Cato The Younger Quotes

#1. Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

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#2. Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

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#3. All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.

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#4. Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

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#5. Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

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#6. Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

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#7. In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

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#8. 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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#9. In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

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#10. 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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#11. Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

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#12. Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

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#13. The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

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#14. I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

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#15. Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

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#16. A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

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#17. I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason ...

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#18. Speak briefly and to the point.

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#19. 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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#20. I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. 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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#21. 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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#22. I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

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#23. The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

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#24. Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

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