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

— 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.

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

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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