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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.

Cato the Younger

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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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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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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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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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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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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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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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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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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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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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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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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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