The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
CATO THE ELDER
We 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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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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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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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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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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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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