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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

Cato the Younger

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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 primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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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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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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