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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.

Cato the Younger

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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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For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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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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Banquet Carbage Dine Dinner Eat Enjoy Half Lot Other Surpasses Vegetable Vegetables Wish
A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Honest Men Seldom Vagrant
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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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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Art Best Concern Discover Enrich Future Many Remembrance Since Immortal
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Both Concern Condieer Iner Men Reveals Say Silence Soul Speech
Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Crime Effect Encourage Magistrate Prevent

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