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Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
— Cato The Elder
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
— Cato The Elder
Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago [Without learning, life is but the image of death]
— Dionysius Cato
With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this.
— Herman Melville
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason ...
— Cato The Younger
He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
— Cato The Elder
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
— Cato The Younger
The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
— Cato The Elder
Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
— Cato The Elder
Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
— Cato The Elder
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
— Cato The Elder
Grasp the subject; the words will follow.
— Cato The Elder
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
— Cato The Younger
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
— Cato The Younger
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
— Cato The Elder
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
— Cato The Elder
Lighter is the wound foreseen.
— Cato The Elder
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
— Marcus Porcius Cato
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
— Cato The Younger
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
— Marcus Porcius Cato
The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.
— Marcus Porcius Cato
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.
— Horace
I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
— Cato The Younger
Let the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real. A cold breeze has sprung
— Suzanne Collins
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
— Cato The Elder
All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
— Cato The Younger
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
— Cato The Younger
Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
— Cato The Younger
I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.
— Cato The Elder
Even though work stops, expenses run on.
— Cato The Elder
Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.
— Cato The Elder
A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
— Cato The Younger
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
— Cato The Younger
For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
— Cato The Elder
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
— Cato The Elder
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
— Cato The Younger
He who hesitates is lost.
— Marcus Porcius Cato
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
— Cato The Elder
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
— Cato The Younger
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
— Cato The Younger
Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
— Marcus Porcius Cato
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
— Cato The Elder
Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
— Cato The Elder
Are you dying?"Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry. — Jo Nesbo
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
I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.
— Suzanne Collins
Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you're at it? (Julian)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Holiness may be found by being in the mere presence of books, without evening parting the pages.
— Beth Cato
The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
— Cato The Elder
After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
— Cato The Elder
Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
— Cato The Elder
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
— Cato The Younger
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
— Marcus Porcius Cato
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
— Cato The Elder
Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
— Cato The Elder
Speak briefly and to the point.
— Cato The Younger
Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
— Cato The Younger
