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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
— Sometimes quoted as Carthago delenda est.
— Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
— Cato was convinced that the security of Rome depended on the annihilation of Carthage and he urged his countrymen to the Third Punic War. Towards the end of his life he ended all of his speeches in the Roman senate with these words.
Non optuma haec sunt neque ut ego aequom censeo:;: verum meliora sunt quam quae deterruma.
— These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad. (translator Henry Thomas Riley)
— Trinummus, Act II, sc. 2, line 111; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
— Alternate translation : This is not the best thing possible, nor what I consider proper ; but it is better than the worst. (translator A. H. Evans)
