Stoicism was founded in Ancient Greece by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, but was practised by the likes of Epictetus, Cato, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius.
And Cato, who in some ways can be thought of as the Roman Socrates, sacrificed his life as a final resistance against Caesar's rule because he refused to serve under someone he viewed as a tyrant.
An economist with the Cato Institute, a conservative think-tank, lamented the " madness" of anti-gouging rules, saying that profits are what entice firms to meet rising demand for safety equipment.
That is the case put forward in " It's Getting Better All the Time, " by the late Julian Simon and Stephen Moore then at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C.
Now unfortunately for Cato he didn't hire a very good marketing team and so he named his crusted cheesecake placenta, and that is why you don't see it on a lot of menus today.
When I'm on tour, there's nothing worse than running out of juice, which is why I always travel with the Lewis Cato Hamster Power Wheel, the first phone charger to use 100% clean energy from hamsters.
I mean, you see people say gulag, there's this conservative Cato Institute immigration scholar who had this incredible quote about why it's so bad that we're depriving people of due process.
On balance, says Cato Institute analyst Malou Innocent, Clinton's time at the State Department will be an asset if she makes a second run for president.
So he pairs Theseus, the mythic founder of Athens, with Romulus, the mythic founder of Rome, and Caesar, the ambitious populist, with Cato, the moralizing elitist.
Even though this by definition only affects the ultra-wealthy, it is a highly unusual policy that, according to the Cato Institute, few other countries have.