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.
CATO THE ELDERA flourishing country should show its prosperity. “When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
-
-
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
CATO THE ELDER -
He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
CATO THE ELDER -
The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
CATO THE ELDER -
A flourishing country should show its prosperity. “When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
CATO THE ELDER -
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 ELDER -
Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
CATO THE ELDER -
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO THE ELDER -
Even though work stops, expenses run on.
CATO THE ELDER -
I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
CATO THE ELDER -
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER -
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 ELDER -
Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
CATO THE ELDER -
I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
CATO THE ELDER -
Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
CATO THE ELDER -
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO THE ELDER