Top 34 Cato The Elder Quotes
#1. Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
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#2. Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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#3. All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
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#4. We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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#5. Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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#7. 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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#8. After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
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#10. It is a hard matter to save a city in which a fish sells for more than an ox.
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#11. There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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#12. The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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#13. Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
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#14. An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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#16. Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
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#19. I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
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#21. Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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#22. 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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#23. Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
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#24. From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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#25. 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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#26. He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
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#27. Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
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#29. The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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#30. If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
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#31. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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