We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
CATO THE ELDERHe who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from 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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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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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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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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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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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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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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