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Inspirational Quotes by Cato the Elder
- Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
- Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
- Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
- Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
- Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
- From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
- Lighter is the wound foreseen.
- An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
- Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
- Even though work stops, expenses run on.
- Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
- Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
- The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
- The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
- He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
- All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
- Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
- Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
- After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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