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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
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Almost Considerable Differ Difference Differences Else Everything Men Often Remarkable Thinking
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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
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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Another Death Expect Good
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
Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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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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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

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