I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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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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