I can pardon everybody’s mistakes except my own.
CATO THE ELDERPatience is the greatest of all virtues.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
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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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Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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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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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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