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"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder. |
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"Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth."
- Cato the Elder. |
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"From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs."
- Cato the Elder. |
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"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."
- Cato the Elder, More quotation on Language. |
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"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."
- Cato the Elder, More quotation on Silence. |
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"Lighter is the wound foreseen."
- Cato the Elder. |
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"Patience is the greatest of all virtues."
- Cato the Elder, More quotation on Patience. |
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"Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity."
- Cato the Elder. |
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"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them."
- Cato the Elder. |
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"I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives. |