I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERIt 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.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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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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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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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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