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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

Cato the Younger

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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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