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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

Cato the Younger

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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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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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Better Say Share Speak Unsaid Will
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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Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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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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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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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Doing Evil Learn Men Nothing
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Honest Men Seldom Vagrant

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