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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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