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• He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
  -- Marcus Porcius Cato, (234-149 BC), Roman statesma...
• He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 930
• Human life nearly resembles iron. When you use it, it wears out.
  When you don't, rust consumes it. -- Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) -- Carmen de moribu...
• Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chai
  hose who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple....
• It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
  -- Marcus Porcius Cato...
• Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
  Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BCE)...
• He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent...Loudness is impotence.
  -- Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) "Aphorisms on Man" (c.1788)...
• Freedom is] the power to live as you will. Who then lives as he wills?
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)...