I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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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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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.
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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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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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