When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection.
CATO THE ELDERFrom lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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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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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
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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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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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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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Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
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