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.
CATO THE YOUNGERThe 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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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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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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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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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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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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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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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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