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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Another Death Expect Good
Speak briefly and to the point.
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Brief Pont Speak Speech
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
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Appreciation Biter Fruit Root Study Sweet Teacher
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Dream Fear Hope Image Regard Since
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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Act Anyone Art Attempt Defeat Expression Friend Heart Manner Sam Think True
I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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First Talking Thinking Tongue Wisdom
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Doing Evil Learn Men Nothing
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Dependent Fool Men Wisdom Wise
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
I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Better Say Share Speak Unsaid Will
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Body Decay File Indolemnce Sloth Soul
Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Do Once Promise Twice
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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Lord Men Over Reign Rightful Save Title Usurpation
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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Comfort Pain People Some Suffer Without
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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Bold Busines Come Dishonest Fit Governwemnt Men Middle People Private Say Some Tyrants
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Conversation Extremes Forwardness Reserve
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Crime Effect Encourage Magistrate Prevent
A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Honest Men Seldom Vagrant
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Act Behold Freedom Men Tyrant
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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Blessed Feel Husband Lust Member Swollen Virtuous
All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Few Gift Possessed Speech Wisdom
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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Art Enjoy Himself Hunt Liberty Member Society Take Understand
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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Concern Deceive Government Happiness Instruction Men Naked Nothing Private Strive Themselves
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Both Concern Condieer Iner Men Reveals Say Silence Soul Speech
The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Close God Hold Principle Quiet Silence Tongue
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

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