It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
CATO THE ELDERThe public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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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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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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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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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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You must keep her on a tight rein.
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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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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.
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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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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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A flourishing country should show its prosperity. “When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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