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.
CATO THE ELDERAfter I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces.
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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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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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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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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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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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