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.
CATO THE ELDERWhen you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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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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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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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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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 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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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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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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