Top 37 Cato The Elder Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Cato The Elder

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

#2. Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

#3. History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

James Thurber

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

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

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#6. Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

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#7. Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you're at it? (Julian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

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

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

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#11. Even though work stops, expenses run on.

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

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

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#14. The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

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#15. Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.

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

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#17. I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

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

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#19. Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

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#20. Lighter is the wound foreseen.

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#21. I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

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#22. Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

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

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#24. 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.

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#25. Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses

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#26. From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

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#27. 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.

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

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#29. The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all too evil designs.

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