Cato the Younger famous quotes

03-23-2025

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.
-- Cato the Younger

#Men #Tyrants #Liberty
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.
-- Cato the Younger

#Pain #People #Suffering
I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
-- Cato the Younger

#Speak #Unsaid
The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
-- Cato the Younger

#Silence #Tongue #Quiet
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
-- Cato the Younger

#Wise #Wisdom #Men
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
-- Cato the Younger

#Tongue #Virtue
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
-- Cato the Younger

#Men #Evil #Doing Nothing
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
-- Cato the Younger

#Teacher #Appreciation #Sweet
By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, 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. 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.
-- Cato the Younger

#Art #Hurt #Men
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
-- Cato the Younger

#Men #Silence #Soul
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
-- Cato the Younger

#People #Liberty #Treason
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. 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.
-- Cato the Younger

#Men #Tyrants #People
A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
-- Cato the Younger

#Men #Vagrants #Honest
All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
-- Cato the Younger

#Speech #Possessed
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
-- Cato the Younger

#Memories #Charity #Way
Speak briefly and to the point.
-- Cato the Younger

#Speech #Speak
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.
-- Cato the Younger

#Husband #Blessed #Lust
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
-- Cato the Younger

#Promise #Can Do
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.
-- Cato the Younger

#Thinking #Men #Differences
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. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
-- Cato the Younger

#Vegetables #Wish #Half
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
-- Cato the Younger

#Soul #Sloth #Decay
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
-- Cato the Younger

#Dream #Hopes And Fears #Regard
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
-- Cato the Younger

#Crime #Effects #Magistrates
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
-- Cato the Younger

#Conversation #Extremes #Reserves
I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
-- Cato the Younger

#Thinking #Talking #Tongue

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