An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
CATO THE ELDERAfter I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
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After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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A flourishing country should show its prosperity. “When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
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When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone.
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You should summon your overseer the next day, and should call for a report of what work has been done in good season and why it has not been possible to complete the rest, and what wine and corn and other crops have been gathered.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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