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Cato the Elder Quotes

Cato the Elder -- Quote #1

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

Cato the Elder -- Quote #2

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

Cato the Elder -- Quote #3

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

Cato the Elder -- Quote #4

Lighter is the wound foreseen. -- Cato the Elder

Cato the Elder -- Quote #5

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

Cato the Elder -- 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. -- Cato the Elder

Cato the Elder -- Quote #7

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

Cato the Elder -- Quote #8

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. -- Cato the Elder

Cato the Elder -- Quote #9

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

Cato the Elder -- Quote #10

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

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