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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
CATO THE YOUNGER

Activity Art Discovery Exert Film Human Itself Percussion Remembrance Soul
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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Land never Sea Travel
Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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Close God Hold Principle Quiet Silence Tongue
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Another Death Expect Good
A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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Honest Men Seldom Vagrant
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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Doing Evil Learn Men Nothing
Speak briefly and to the point.
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Brief Pont Speak Speech
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
It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Drink Eaten Feel Like Make Much
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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Arbiter Ascertain Equality Every Fruit Honest Limitation Man Manner Reward
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Greatest Restrain Tongue Virtue

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