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“Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.”
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“He who hesitates is lost.”
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“After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
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“Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.”
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“Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.”
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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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“Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.”
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“The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.”
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“Carthago delenda est”
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“If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.”
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“Grasp the subject; the words will follow.”
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“It is a hard matter to save a city in which a fish sells for more than an ox.”
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“A clever learns more from fool than fools learn from the wise.”
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“After I am dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
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“Aedificare diu cogitare oportet. Conserere cogitare non oportet, sed facere oportet.
[Building requires long thought: planting requires not thought but action.]”
― Cato and Varro: On Agriculture
[Building requires long thought: planting requires not thought but action.]”
― Cato and Varro: On Agriculture
“Siquid desit in annum, uti paretur: quae supersint, ut veneant: quae opus sint locato, locentur: quae opera fieri velit et quae locari velit, uti imperet et ea scripta relinquat... Patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet.
Give orders that whatever may be lacking for the current year be supplied; that what is superfluous be sold; that whatever work should be let out be let. Give directions as to what work you want done on the place, and what you want let out, and leave the directions in writing... The master should have the selling habit, not the buying habit.”
― Cato and Varro: On Agriculture
Give orders that whatever may be lacking for the current year be supplied; that what is superfluous be sold; that whatever work should be let out be let. Give directions as to what work you want done on the place, and what you want let out, and leave the directions in writing... The master should have the selling habit, not the buying habit.”
― Cato and Varro: On Agriculture
“All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.”
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“Delenda est Carthago"
"Carthage must be destroyed”
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"Carthage must be destroyed”
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“Res, non verba.”
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“El hombre virtuoso, es un hombre libre.”
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“Res, non verba”
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“Siquid desit in annum, uti paretur: quae supersint, ut veneant: quae opus sint locato, locentur: quae opera fieri velit et quae locari velit, uti imperet et ea scripta relinquat... Patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet.”
― Cato and Varro: On Agriculture
― Cato and Varro: On Agriculture
“Niemals ist man tätiger, als wenn man dem äußeren Anschein nach nichts tut, niemals ist man weniger allein, als wenn man in der Einsamkeit mit sich allein ist.”
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“Delenda Carthago est.”
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“Siquid desit in annum, uti paretur: quae supersint, ut veneant: quae opus sint locato, locentur: quae opera fieri velit et quae locari velit, uti imperet et ea scripta relinquat... Patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet.
Give orders that whatever may be lacking for the current year be supplied; that what is superfluous be sold; that whatever work should be let out be let... The master should have the selling habit, not the buying habit.”
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Give orders that whatever may be lacking for the current year be supplied; that what is superfluous be sold; that whatever work should be let out be let... The master should have the selling habit, not the buying habit.”
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