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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that…
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Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered,…
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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
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If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat.…
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by…
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing…
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No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when,…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.
— Henry Austin Dobson
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
— Walter Bagehot
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel…
— Tacitus
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I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.
— Plutarch
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I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point...? Harry raised his wand,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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