I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERBlessed 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.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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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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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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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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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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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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