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According to Cato the Elder, Scipio Africanus was wont to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when alone.
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Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.... Blushes are the sign of guilt; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cato the Elder
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Born:
234 BC
Died:
149 BC
(aged 85)
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