The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
CATO THE ELDERThe worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
CATO THE ELDERIt is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
CATO THE ELDERI prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
CATO THE ELDERBuy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
CATO THE ELDERNot at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
CATO THE ELDERTis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
CATO THE ELDERThere is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
CATO THE ELDERAfter I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
CATO THE ELDERFrom lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO THE ELDERAfter I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDERSuffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
CATO THE ELDERThe public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
CATO THE ELDERWise 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 ELDERA flourishing country should show its prosperity. “When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
CATO THE ELDERBetween the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
CATO THE ELDERAnger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
CATO THE ELDER