The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
CATO THE ELDERWomen 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?
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
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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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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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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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Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
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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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After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had 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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Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
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