Cato The Elder (Cato The Elder)

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
-- Cato The Elder

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.
-- Cato The Elder

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
-- Cato The Elder

Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est. Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
-- Cato The Elder

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
-- Cato The Elder

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
-- Cato The Elder

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth
-- Cato The Elder

Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
-- Cato The Elder

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
-- Cato The Elder

Even though work stops, expenses run on.
-- Cato The Elder

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
-- Cato The Elder

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
-- Cato The Elder

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
-- Cato The Elder

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
-- Cato The Elder

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.
-- Cato The Elder

He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
-- Cato The Elder

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
-- Cato The Elder

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
-- Cato The Elder

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
-- Cato The Elder

Lighter is the wound foreseen.
-- Cato The Elder

Not that I might die learned
-- Cato The Elder

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
-- Cato The Elder

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
-- Cato The Elder

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.
-- Cato The Elder

The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
-- Cato The Elder

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
-- Cato The Elder

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
-- Cato The Elder

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