frugality

But because neither he who through fear has abandoned his post, which is cowardice, nor he who through avarice has not returned a deposit secretly given, which is injustice, nor he who through rashness has managed an affair badly, which is folly, is wont to be called frugi, therefore frugality has embraced three virtues — fortitude, justice, prudence (although this indeed is common to the virtues, …

but I am not sure whether that virtue may rightly be called frugality, which among the Greeks has a narrower meaning, who call frugi men chrēsimous, that is, merely useful;

Frugality, as I think, is from \"fruit\" (frux), than which nothing better comes from the earth;

It would account to a great extent, for our deviation so rapidly from that frugality, deemed essential to the preservation of liberty by almost all the real patriots who have ever appeared.

the recommendations of frugality as indispensable to the continuance of our free form of government, so often recommended, and so steadily practised by two of the wisest and most virtuous patriots who ever blessed a nation (Washington and Jefferson) derided;

Oh, how great was the glory of the age, that a triumphant general, a censor, and what is above all these, a Cato, was content with a single nag, and not even with a whole one!

Marcus Cato the Censor, whom it was as much to the public good that he should be born as that Scipio should, for the one waged war with our enemies, the other with our morals, used to ride a gelding, and with saddle-bags loaded on it at that, that he might carry useful things with him.

I do not yet dare to carry my frugality openly.