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Cato the Elder


Roman statesman, often called "The Censor," Sapiens, Priscus, or Major, to distinguish him from Cato the Younger.
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Cato the Elder
Rem tene, verba sequentur.
Cato the Elder quotes
Lighter is the wound foreseen.
Cato the Elder
All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.




Cato the Elder quotes
'Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elder
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
Cato the Elder quotes
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.
Cato the Elder
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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In my life, I have never repented but of three things: that I trust a woman with a secret, that I went by sea when I might have gone by land, and that I passed a day with idleness.
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