The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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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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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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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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