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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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