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?
CATO THE ELDERThe worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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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.
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Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
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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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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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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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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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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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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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