Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERThose magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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