Cato : (1) Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), Cato the Elder; Roman statesman & orator, sent to Carthage, he returned stern with disapproval of Carthaginian ways. All his speeches in the senate he ended with the words Delenda est Carthago: “Carthage must be destroyed”, earning him the name Cato the Censor. (2) Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (95-46 BC), great grandson of Cato the Elder, was called Cato the Younger or Cato of Utica. His high reputation for honesty & incorruptibility & stiff-necked refusal to compromise made him none too popular with his colleagues. A violent opponent of Julius Caesar, after Caesar crushed Scipio at Thapsus (46 BC), he committed suicide at Utica, bidding his people to surrender to Caesar.
... one now reads and hears the Western press describing Pakistan as "a failed State". A perusal of the Cato research paper on American policy towards India, by Subodh Atal, is another clear indication in this direction. Here is an extract from the Cato paper: The Cato paper "Without delay, the United States must pressure the Musharraf regime to dismantle the entire terrorist ...
... allowing any mental justification of it, however logical, right and plausible the justification may seem to be—always replying to all the mind's arguments or the vital's feelings in favour of it, like Cato 8 2 to the debaters, "Delenda est Carthago”— "Carthage must be destroyed", Carthage in this case being the formation and its nefarious circle. Anyway the closing idea in your letter ...
... Moguls who again had taken it up from the Mauryas; a system initiated perhaps by still earlier legislators and builders of Indian polity. Mussolini of twentieth century Italy is in no way related to Cato or Julius Caesar of ancient Rome, but Sri Ramakrishna or Sri Aurobindo is a direct descendant of the Vedic Rishis. What is the cause of this 'strange longevity or stability that India or China ...
... of multiplicity & therefore from the necessity of phenomenal existence. In both cases the process & result are similar & a like subterfuge is utilised. In both cases Logic, like Page 576 Cato at Utica, has committed suicide in order to assert its rights & liberties; but it has died, as the patients of Molière's doctors had the felicity of dying, according to the rules of the science; therefore ...
... My heart is far from overflowing compassion for people who approach the Divine only when they are sick. Katha Upanishad, 1.3.14. Page 302 Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BCE): Roman statesman surnamed "The Censor". His speeches were principally directed against the young free-thinking and loose-principled nobles of the day. He often ended his speeches thus: ...
... allowing any mental justification of it, however logical, right and plausible the justification may seem to be—always replying to all the mind's arguments or the vital's feelings in favour of it, like Cato to the debaters, " Delenda est Page 683 Carthago"—"Carthage must be destroyed", Carthage in this case being the formation and its nefarious circle. Anyway the closing idea in your letter ...
... 243, 280, 384 Buddhism, 54, 110, 166, 280 Byron, 194 CAESAR, jULIUS, 206, 208, 239, 367,394 Calcutta Review, the, 336n., 339n Camoens, 197 Canada, 106 Cato, 239 Chaitanya,216 Chaldea, 219, 223 Chamberlaine, Neville, 100 Chandragupta, 93, 394 Chaucer, 194 China, 119, 238-40, 242 Christ, 6, 50, 14511 ...
... sought to mitigate the pangs of his body's death, by considering it not as the end of the whole of his existence but rather 1 Quoted on p. 26 of Immortality by A. W. Momerie. 2 Cato. Page 338 as a new birth, a sleep or a transition . After all, has he not witnessed with eager gaze a snake gliding forth young and new after it has cast its slough, or a beetle ...
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