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Cato The Elder Quotes

«An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.»
«If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.»
Author: Cato The Elder | Keywords: king, ruled, slave
«It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work»
Author: Cato The Elder | Keywords: farming
«Grasp the subject, the words will follow.»
«Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.»
Author: Cato The Elder | Keywords: all but
«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.»
«Carthage must be destroyed.»
Author: Cato The Elder | Keywords: Carthage
«After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.»
Author: Cato The Elder | Keywords: monument, The Monument
«The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.»
Author: Cato The Elder | Keywords: refresh
«Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.»
Author: Cato The Elder | Keywords: Wise Men