Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
CATO THE ELDERA flourishing country should show its prosperity. “When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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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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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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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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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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When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood.
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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