Quotes from Marcus Porcius Cato

He who hesitates is lost.

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

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

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

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

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

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.

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Do not expect good from another's death.

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

Carthage must be destroyed.

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

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

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.

Even though work stops, expenses run on.

A farm is like a man—however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left.

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

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

Aedificare diu cogitare oportet. Conserere cogitare non oportet, sed facere oportet. [Building requires long thought: planting requires not thought but action.]

Niemals ist man tätiger, als wenn man dem äußeren Anschein nach nichts tut, niemals ist man weniger allein, als wenn man in der Einsamkeit mit sich allein ist.