Who was this Roman General/figure of authority who, on his deathbed, named these two regrets?

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Plutarch's Lives says this about Marcus Cato:

He would likewise say ... and that in his whole life he most repented of three things; one was, that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land; the third, that he had remained one whole day without doing any business of moment.

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