Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
-- Cato, Act v, Sc. 4
-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
-- Cato, Act v, Sc. 4
Related:
- A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act ii, Sc.... - Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye,
and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers... - Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.
-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
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Cato, Act i, Sc.... - Curse all his virtues! they 've undone his country.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act iv, Sc.... - From hence, let fierce contending nations know
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act v, Sc.... - T 's pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul;
I think the Romans call it stoicism.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act i, Sc.... - Were you with these, my prince, you 'd soon forget
The pale,
unripened beauties of the north. -- Joseph Addison... - What a pity is it
That we can die but once to save our country!
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act iv, Sc.... - When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honour is a private station.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act iv, Sc....
