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Cato the Elder
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Cato the Elder
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
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Cato the Elder
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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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.
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Cato the Elder
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives
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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