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?
CATO THE ELDERI prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
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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 public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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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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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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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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