I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
CATO THE ELDERCessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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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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After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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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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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
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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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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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