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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.

Cato the Younger

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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
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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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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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