Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
CATO THE ELDERFurthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
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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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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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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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Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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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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