Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
CATO THE ELDERThere is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces.
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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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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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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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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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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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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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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 am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
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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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