Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) Quotes
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
Quotes to Explore
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
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The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
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Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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America’s media seem utterly lacking in introspection. Do they understand why so many people hate them so? Do they care? Are they so smugly self-righteous and self-regarding they cannot see?
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears.
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Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.
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I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
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When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
