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A honest man is seldom a vagrant. - [Vagrant] After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. - [Fame] All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom. - [Speech] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. - [Anger] Be firm or mild as the occasion may require. - [Proverbs] Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man. - [Speech] Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. - [Proverbs] Do not expect good from another's death. - [Proverbs] Don't promise twice what you can do at once. - [Proverbs] Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. - [Sloth] 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. - [Good Breeding] He who fears death has already lost the life he covets. - [Death] I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. - [Self-control : Silence] I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue. - [Talking] In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve. - [Conversation] In doing nothing men learn to do evil. - [Proverbs] It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears. - when the Romans demanded corn [Hunger] Never travel by sea when you can go by land. - [Travel] Old age has deformities enough of its own; do not add to it the deformity of vice. - [Age] Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears. - [Dreams] 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.] - [Proverbs] 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. 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. - [Politics] Some men are more beholden to their bitterest enemies than to friends who appear to be sweetness itself. The former frequently tell the truth, but the latter never. - [Enemies] Speak briefly and to the point. - [Speech] The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others. - [Retrospection] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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