Cato the Elder

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

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.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Even though work stops, expenses run on.

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.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.