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

Cato the Younger

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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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