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 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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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood.
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When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone.
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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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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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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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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 can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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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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