Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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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Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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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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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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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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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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