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 ELDERIf you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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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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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection.
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Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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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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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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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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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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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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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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