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 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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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
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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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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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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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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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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.
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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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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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