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Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
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Women want total freedom or rather – to call things by their names – total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with?
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
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You should summon your overseer the next day, and should call for a report of what work has been done in good season and why it has not been possible to complete the rest, and what wine and corn and other crops have been gathered.
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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You must keep her on a tight rein.
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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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