When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone.
CATO THE ELDERHe is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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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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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
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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’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have 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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When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day.
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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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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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Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
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Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
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