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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

Cato the Younger

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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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Comfort Pain People Some Suffer Without
I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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First Talking Thinking Tongue Wisdom
Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Do Once Promise Twice
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Dependent Fool Men Wisdom Wise
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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Blessed Feel Husband Lust Member Swollen Virtuous
Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Land never Sea Travel
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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Banquet Carbage Dine Dinner Eat Enjoy Half Lot Other Surpasses Vegetable Vegetables Wish
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Betraying Liberty People Sapping Treason
A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Honest Men Seldom Vagrant
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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Art Breed Company Converse External Good Internal Men Regard Show Sign
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Act Best Charity Keep Memories New Refresh Way
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Dream Fear Hope Image Regard Since
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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Bold Busines Come Dishonest Fit Governwemnt Men Middle People Private Say Some Tyrants
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Doing Evil Learn Men Nothing
Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Another Death Expect Good
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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Lord Men Over Reign Rightful Save Title Usurpation

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