Cato The Elder Quotes & Quotations

Cato The Elder Quotes

» After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

» I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

» Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

» An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

» If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

» It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

» It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

» Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

» 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.

» Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

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