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.
CATO THE ELDERWise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
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You must keep her on a tight rein.
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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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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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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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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