Cato the Elder Quotes

• Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
• The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
• Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.
• Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
• An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
• An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
• Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth
• Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
• Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
• Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
• Vir bonus, dicendi peritus
• Do not expect good from another's death.
• Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
• From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
• Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
• 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.
• I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
• In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
• In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
• It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
• Lighter is the wound foreseen.
• Not that I might die learned-but that I might not die unlearned.
• Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
• Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
• Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art.
• The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
• The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
• 'Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
• We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
• Fronte capillata, post est Occasio calva.

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