"Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity."
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Cato the Elder quotes (page 2 of 2)
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"Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work."
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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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"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."
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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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"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. When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone, 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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"The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it."
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"Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen."
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"He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent."
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"Lighter is the wound foreseen."
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"Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed."
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"Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses"
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"Even though work stops, expenses run on."
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"Be firm or mild as the occasion may require."
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"From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs."
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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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"An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking."
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