The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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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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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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You must keep her on a tight rein.
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After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
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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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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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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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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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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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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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