I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERArt, 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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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues 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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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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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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