
Cato The Elder Quotes
Consider the following quotes by Cato The Elder:
Cato the Elder
"Lighter is the wound foreseen."
"Patience is the greatest of all virtues."
"An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking."
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
"From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs."
"Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth."
"Even though work stops, expenses run on."
"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."
"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."
"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."