Cato the Elder Quotes

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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. You must keep her on a tight rein . . . 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? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .

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  Letting Go, Animal, Men

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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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  Success, Wise, Mistake

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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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  Punishment, Thanks

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• Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

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  Matter, Serious, Ridiculous

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• Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

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  Thinking, Carthage, Destroyed

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• The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

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  Hero, Praise

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• If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

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  Kings, Political, Mind

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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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  Life, Witty, Clever

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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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  Inspirational, Good Life, Evil

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• The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.

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  Worst, Rulers

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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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  God, Anger, Thinking

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• An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

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  Educational, Anger, Eye

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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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  Suffering, Moments, Gender

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• Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.

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  Anger, Clouds, Mind

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• Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

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  Stupidity, Height, Sometimes

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• All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

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  Mankind

  The Classical weekly, Volumes 25-26 (p. 273), 1932.

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• It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

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  Ears, Matter, Arguing

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• Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

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  Speech

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• Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

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  Patience, Virtue, Fame

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• I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

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  Forgiveness, Mistake, Pardon

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• Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

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  Communication, Self Improvement, Language

  Quoted in Caius Julius Victor, Ars Rhetorica

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• Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

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  Agriculture, Farming, Late

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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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  Needs, Want, What You Want

  "Epistles, Volume III: Epistles 93-124 (Epistle 94)". Book by Seneca translated by Richard M. Gummere, January 1925.

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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. 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, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.

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  Country, Giving, Needs

  Cato the Elder (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Cato the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.13, Delphi Classics

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• Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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