Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
CATO THE ELDERFurthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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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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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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Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
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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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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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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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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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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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After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood.
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