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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

Cato the Younger

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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
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
Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Another Death Expect Good
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Crime Effect Encourage Magistrate Prevent
Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Land never Sea Travel
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Body Decay File Indolemnce Sloth Soul
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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Art Breed Company Converse External Good Internal Men Regard Show Sign
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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Concern Deceive Government Happiness Instruction Men Naked Nothing Private Strive Themselves
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Conversation Extremes Forwardness Reserve
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Doing Evil Learn Men Nothing
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
All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Few Gift Possessed Speech 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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Banquet Carbage Dine Dinner Eat Enjoy Half Lot Other Surpasses Vegetable Vegetables Wish
I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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First Talking Thinking Tongue Wisdom
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Act Behold Freedom Men Tyrant
Since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
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Art Best Concern Discover Enrich Future Many Remembrance Since Immortal

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