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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Conversation Extremes Forwardness Reserve
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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Land never Sea Travel
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Doing Evil Learn Men Nothing
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Betraying Liberty People Sapping Treason
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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Arbiter Ascertain Equality Every Fruit Honest Limitation Man Manner Reward
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
It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Drink Eaten Feel Like Make Much

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