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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.

Cato the Younger

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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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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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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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 will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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