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Cato the Elder

Marcus Porcius Cato was a Roman statesman, commonly referred to as Censorius, Sapiens, Priscus, or Major, Cato the Elder, or Cato the Censor, known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization.

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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.

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

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

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Even though work stops, expenses run on.

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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

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

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It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

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Lighter is the wound foreseen.

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

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

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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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Marc Jeric
Cartaginem delendam esse? Is that his quote also?
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