We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
CATO THE ELDERYou 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.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
-
-
You must keep her on a tight rein.
CATO THE ELDER -
When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone.
CATO THE ELDER -
Lighter is the wound foreseen.
CATO THE ELDER -
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.
CATO THE ELDER -
Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
CATO THE ELDER -
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
CATO THE ELDER -
I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
CATO THE ELDER -
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO THE ELDER -
Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
CATO THE ELDER -
A flourishing country should show its prosperity. “When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
CATO THE ELDER -
Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
CATO THE ELDER -
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER -
He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
CATO THE ELDER -
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
CATO THE ELDER -
Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
CATO THE ELDER