Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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
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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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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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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.
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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
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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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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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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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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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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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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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