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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Cato the Younger

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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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Bold Busines Come Dishonest Fit Governwemnt Men Middle People Private Say Some Tyrants
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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Almost Considerable Differ Difference Differences Else Everything Men Often Remarkable Thinking
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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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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I think the first wisdom is 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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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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