Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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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After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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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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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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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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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
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Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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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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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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