Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
CATO THE ELDERI 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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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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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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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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Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
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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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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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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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You must keep her on a tight rein.
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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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