Famous Quotes / Cato the Elder
23 Quotations by Cato the Elder
- 1. After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
- 2. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
- 3. An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
- 4. Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
- 5. Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
- 6. Even though work stops, expenses run on.
- 7. From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
- 8. Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
- 9. I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.
- 10. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b ...
- 11. I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
- 12. If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
- 13. It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
- 14. It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
- 15. Lighter is the wound foreseen.
- 16. Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- 17. Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
- 18. Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
- 19. The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
- 20. Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.