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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Cato the Younger

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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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 primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.
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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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