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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Cato the Younger

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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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 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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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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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