A flourishing country should show its prosperity. “When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
CATO THE ELDERYou must keep her on a tight rein.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
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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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I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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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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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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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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You must keep her on a tight rein.
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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