Quotes About Cato The Younger

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

Cato The Younger

#2. Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

Walter Darby Bannard

#3. Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Cato The Younger

#4. The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Cato The Younger

#5. I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Cato The Younger

#6. 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.

Cato The Younger

#7. 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.

Cato The Younger

#8. For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.

Cato The Younger

#9. Speak briefly and to the point.

Cato The Younger

#10. What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

Seneca The Younger

#11. Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one's understanding.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#12. I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason ...

Cato The Younger

#13. A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

Cato The Younger

#14. Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Cato The Younger

#15. I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

Warren Christopher

#16. I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Cato The Younger

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

Cato The Younger

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

Cato The Younger

#19. Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

Cato The Younger

#20. Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]

Cato The Younger

#21. In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

Cato The Younger

#22. If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Randy Alcorn

#23. Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

Cato The Younger

#24. In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Cato The Younger

#25. Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

Paddy Chayefsky

#26. Happiness is a very personal feeling, and it's nobody's right to declare what it means to you. And most importantly, happiness is impossible if you're not willing to chase it.

Cara Alwill Leyba

#27. Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

Cato The Younger

#28. Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

Cato The Younger

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

Cato The Younger

#30. 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

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

Cato The Younger

#32. Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

Cato The Younger