If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO THE ELDER
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.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
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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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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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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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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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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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