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Odi profanum vulgus et ardeo. Favete linguis.
— I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
— Horace, Odes, Book III. 1. ("Favete linguis" also found in Cicero, Ovid).
Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, Si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant, Gestores linguis, auditores auribus.
— Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged—the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.
— Plautus, Pseudolus, I. 5. 12.
