All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
CATO THE ELDERAnger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone.
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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