Cato The Elder Quotes

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. 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

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

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#4. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

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#5. Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

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

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#7. 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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#8. Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses

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

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

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#12. 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.

Pliny The Elder

#13. Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.

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#14. Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.

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#15. The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

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#16. If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

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

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#18. The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.

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#19. Grasp the subject; the words will follow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#29. Lighter is the wound foreseen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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