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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
A clever learns more from fool than fools learn from the wise.
Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
It is a hard matter to save a city in which a fish sells for more than an ox.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
