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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

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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Both Concern Condieer Iner Men Reveals Say Silence Soul Speech
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Appreciation Biter Fruit Root Study Sweet Teacher
I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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First Talking Thinking Tongue Wisdom
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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Another Death Expect Good
Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Land never Sea Travel
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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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Do Once Promise Twice
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
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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Greatest Restrain Tongue Virtue
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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Act Anyone Art Attempt Defeat Expression Friend Heart Manner Sam Think True
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Conversation Extremes Forwardness Reserve

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