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Cato the Younger Quotes
24 quotes from Cato the Younger — Roman senator and Stoic philosopher who was the last defender of the Roman Republic against Julius Caesar's dictatorshi….
“Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.”
“Speak briefly and to the point.”
“I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.”
“Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.”
“Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.”
“In doing nothing men learn to do evil.”
“The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.”
“Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.”
“I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason...”
“Don't promise twice what you can do at once.”
“Everyone has the gift of speech. But few have the gift of wisdom.”
“When men choose to do nothing, they also learn to do evil.”
“Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.”
“Speak briefly and to the point.”
“I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.”
“Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.”
“Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.”
“In doing nothing men learn to do evil.”
“The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.”
“Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.”
“I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason...”
“Don't promise twice what you can do at once.”
“Everyone has the gift of speech. But few have the gift of wisdom.”
“When men choose to do nothing, they also learn to do evil.”