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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with C >> Quotes By Cato the Elder |
| Quote #1: | "We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them." |
| Quote #2: | "Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity." |
| Quote #3: | "Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth." |
| Quote #4: | "Lighter is the wound foreseen." |
| Quote #5: | "Patience is the greatest of all virtues." |
| Quote #6: | "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." |
| Quote #7: | "From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs." |
| Quote #8: | "After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." |
| Quote #9: | "Grasp the subject, the words will follow." |
| Quote #10: | "I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one." |
| Quote #11: | "An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking." |
| Quote #12: | "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." |
| Quote #13: | "Even though work stops, expenses run on." |
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