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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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Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
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For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
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The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.
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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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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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