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“Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.”
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- Source:
- Life of Marcus Cato.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4974a3cc1a1e91ac9d1ea8bdf670109cdac14e6d1b954f3e95343841b15ff3e0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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