Quotes from Cato the Elder

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

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.

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

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others,; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

It is a hard matter to save a city in which a fish sells for more than an ox.

Grasp the subject; the words will follow.

A clever learns more from fool than fools learn from the wise.

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.