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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

Cato the Younger

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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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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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