Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
CATO THE ELDERAll mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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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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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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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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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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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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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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