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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

— Cato the Elder

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Those who commit private theft pass their lives in confinement and fetters; plunderers of the public, in gold and purple.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

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