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• It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
• Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered,…
• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing…
• When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.
• There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every…
• Character is simply habit long continued.
• Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
• For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it…

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