Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) Quotes

This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, 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.

Cato the Younger

• Art
• Soul
• Impossible
• Concern
• Immortal
• Remembrance
• Persuasion

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• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

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• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

  

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• If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

  

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• Most geniuses are weird.

  

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• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

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• I was traveling a lot as a young actor, and while in a new city, I'd want to see the place, so I would just put on my trainers and go for a jog. And the more I did that, the more I found I was traveling longer and longer distances. I just fell into it.

  

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• I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

  

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• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  

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• If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

  

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• The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

  

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• Shocked disbelief greets suggestions that many women may take pleasure in rape fantasies, established long ago by Nancy Friday in her pioneering 1973 study, My Secret Garden, and dramatized today by the staggering mass-market popularity of Harlequin Romances, where heroines are overwhelmed by passionate, impetuous men.

  

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• Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.

  

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• Let it not be in any man's power to say truly of thee that thou art not simple or that thou art not good; but let him be a liar whoever shall think anything of this kind about thee; and this is altogether in thy power.

  

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• I think I drift toward sad love songs.

  

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• You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

  

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• I need to acknowledge the toll certain parts of my life are taking on me. I have to do that, even if it temporarily paralyzes me to suppress it. Otherwise, paradoxically, I can't go on. When I can reside in that, and recoup, then I can continue. In a strange way it's a survival method.

  

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• Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.

  

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• Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

  

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• Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.

  

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• This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, 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.

  

  Cato the Younger
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Impossible