A flourishing country should show its prosperity. “When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
CATO THE ELDERFarming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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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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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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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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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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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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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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