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Cato The Elder Quotations

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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them.
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
Wise 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 Elder - from Plutarch
Roman orator & politician
234 - 149
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Lighter is the wound foreseen.
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

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