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.
CATO THE ELDERWe cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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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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