Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
CATO THE ELDERBe firm or mild as the occasion may require.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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You must keep her on a tight rein.
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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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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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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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Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
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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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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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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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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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