 | Hugh Moore - 1831 - 528 páginas
...Virtutum primam esse puto compescere linguam ; Proximus ille Deo est quiscit ratione tacere. CATO — " I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue...how to be silent, even though he is in the right." — MM. 4544. Virum volitare per ora. (Lat.)—" To fly through the mouths of men." To he much spoken... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - 1849 - 190 páginas
...small value. Speech is given to every man, wisdom is attained by few. " He," says an ancient writer, " approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right." There is a time when one may say almost anything. But none when a man may tell everything. " One unguarded... | |
 | 1856 - 570 páginas
...reason that no man is great to his Servants — both know too much of him. gelt dontroL — Cato. J THINK the first Virtue is to restrain the Tongue : he approaches nearest to the Grods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. . — Butler. JJE could raise Scruples... | |
 | Francis Redfern - 1875 - 80 páginas
...empty dream. For the soul is dead that slumbers, things are not what they seem." — Longfellow. " I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue....nearest to the Gods who knows how to be silent even tho' he is in the right." — Cato. Knowledge, when wisdom is too weak to guide her, is like a headstrong... | |
 | 1875 - 444 páginas
...others, merely a date. I think the first virtue is to restrain She tongue; he approaches nearest to ;he gods who knows how to be silent even though he is in the right. The world is a looking-glass, and jives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at... | |
 | Esmond Vedder De Graff - 1881 - 128 páginas
...passed, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.— Sir William Temple. 4. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue;...Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is right. — Oato. 5. 6. If all men were on an equality, the consequence would be that all must perish;... | |
 | 1883 - 804 páginas
...your breath ; Work like a man, but don't be worked to death. Holmes. He approaches nearest to the pods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. Cato. Never give up! it is wiser and better Always to hope, than once to despair; Fling off the load... | |
 | James Locke Batchelder - 1884 - 402 páginas
...monosyllables: "Thou hast said it." Whose words are the fewest, the most resembles God. " I think," said Cato, "the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches...how to be silent, even though he is in the right." Jesus was reserved in His confidences, and yet how fully He poured out His heart to His loved ones,... | |
 | Madison Clinton Peters - 1886 - 188 páginas
...triviality and imbecility, that can be silent, how respectable are they in comparison ! " Cato says : " I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue ; he approaches nearest the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right." He who knows when to keep his... | |
 | 1891 - 826 páginas
...the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion wiih God. I THINK the first virtue is to restrain the tongue;...how to be silent, even though he is in the right. — Cato. AGREEMENT in principles is the strongest bond that unites different orders of men, constructing... | |
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THINK the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. 
