Life Enables Quotes by Cato the Elder

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Cato the Elder has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
• Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
• Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
• It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
• 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.
• Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to…
• From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
• Lighter is the wound foreseen.
• An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

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