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.
CATO THE ELDERBe firm or mild as the occasion may require.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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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’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
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Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
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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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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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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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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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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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