Even though work stops, expenses run on.
CATO THE ELDERBetween the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
More Cato the Elder Quotes
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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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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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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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When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone.
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Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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You must keep her on a tight rein.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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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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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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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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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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