A flourishing country should show its prosperity. “When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
CATO THE ELDERBetween the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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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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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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All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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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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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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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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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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When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone.
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