Lighter is the wound foreseen.
CATO THE ELDERSuffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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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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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 learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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You must keep her on a tight rein.
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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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