I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
CATO THE ELDERThe worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
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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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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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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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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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Women want total freedom or rather – to call things by their names – total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with?
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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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You must keep her on a tight rein.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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