The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
CATO THE ELDERI prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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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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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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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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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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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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You must keep her on a tight rein.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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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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I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
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Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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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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