Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.
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.
A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.
Speak briefly and to the point.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.
It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some
