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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Cato the Younger

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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Greatest Restrain Tongue Virtue
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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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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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 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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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