I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERWise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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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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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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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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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.
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