Quotes from Cato the Younger

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

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

Do not expect good from another's death.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.