Consider it the greatest of all virtues 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 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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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Speak briefly and to the point.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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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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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
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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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It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
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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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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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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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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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