It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.Marcus Porcius Cato
Ended every speech in the Roman senate with the words For the rest, I wrote that Carthage should be destroyed. Ceterum senseo Carthaginem esse delendam.
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Definition of an orator A good man, skilled in speaking. Vir bonus, dicendi peritus.
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
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