A farm is like a man-however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is… — Cato the Elder
A farm is like a man-however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left.
In the original Latin
Scito idem agrum quod hominem, quamvis quaestuosus siet, si sumptuosus erit, relinqui non multum.
De Agricultura · 160 BC
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Cato the Elder. "On Agriculture." Cato and Varro: On Agriculture, translated by W. D. Hooper and H. B. Ash. Harvard University Press, 1934, ch. 1, sect. 6.
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Cato the Elder. De Agricultura [On Agriculture]. c. 160 BC, ch. 1, sect. 6.