Character Quote by Cato the Younger Download Open image “The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.” — Cato the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Hold your tongue Know how Knows Primaries Quiet Silence Tongue Virtue
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Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
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To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good. — Aristotle Copy Share
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she will never become a saint. Let her not delude herself - unless it is the Spirit of God who is speaking through her, for then she must not keep silent. But, in order to hear… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share
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… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
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