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.
CATO THE ELDERGrasp the subject, the words will follow.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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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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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
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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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When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone.
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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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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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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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