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And Cato, who was a friend of his, and a relation by marriage, was nevertheless much offended by his life and habits. Once when a youthful senator had delivered a tedious and lengthy discourse, all out of season, on frugality and temperance, Cato rose and said;
‘Stop there! you get wealth like Crassus, you live like Lucullus, but you talk like Cato.’ Some, however, while they say that these words were actually uttered, do not say that they were spoken by Cato.
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