I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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