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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

Cato the Younger

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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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Betraying Liberty People Sapping Treason
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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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
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
Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Do Once Promise Twice
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
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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
This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Act Behold Freedom Men Tyrant
I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Better Say Share Speak Unsaid Will

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