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
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces.
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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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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
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I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
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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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After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
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Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
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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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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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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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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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