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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

Cato the Younger

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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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 private mill.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government–a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
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To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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