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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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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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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 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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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Art Breed Company Converse External Good Internal Men Regard Show Sign
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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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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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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