All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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.]
More Cato the Younger Quotes
-
-
Do not expect good from another’s death.
CATO THE YOUNGER -
The 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 YOUNGER -
Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.
CATO THE YOUNGER -
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO THE YOUNGER -
Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
CATO THE YOUNGER -
The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
CATO THE YOUNGER -
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
CATO THE YOUNGER -
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE YOUNGER -
Blessed 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 YOUNGER -
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
CATO THE YOUNGER -
Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
CATO THE YOUNGER -
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
CATO THE YOUNGER -
Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
CATO THE YOUNGER -
By 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 YOUNGER -
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
CATO THE YOUNGER