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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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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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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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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By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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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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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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
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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