Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERConsider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
CATO THE YOUNGERDon’t promise twice what you can do at once.
CATO THE YOUNGERIt will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
CATO THE YOUNGERBlessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.
CATO THE YOUNGERBitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
CATO THE YOUNGERShould 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. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]
CATO THE YOUNGERRegard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
CATO THE YOUNGERI will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
CATO THE YOUNGERDo not expect good from another’s death.
CATO THE YOUNGERThe primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
CATO THE YOUNGERThe cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.
CATO THE YOUNGERAll have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
CATO THE YOUNGERIn conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
CATO THE YOUNGERBy Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
CATO THE YOUNGERWise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO THE YOUNGERI know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
CATO THE YOUNGER