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?
CATO THE ELDER
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
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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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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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