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• It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Marcus Cato...
• He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
  -- Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), attributed...
• Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
  Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BCE)...
• He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
  -- Marcus Porcius Cato, (234-149 BC), Roman statesma...
• If thou findest thy wife in adultery, thou art free to kill her without trial, and canst not be punished.
  If, on the other hand, thou committest adultery, she durst not, and she has no right to, so much as lay a finger on thee....
• Human life nearly resembles iron. When you use it, it wears out.
  When you don't, rust consumes it. -- Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) -- Carmen de moribu...
• Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chai
  hose who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple....
• The belly has no ears, nor is it to be filled with fair words.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. lxii...