The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
CATO THE ELDERNot at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from 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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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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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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