When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day.
CATO THE ELDERBetween the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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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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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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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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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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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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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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You must keep her on a tight rein.
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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