Quote by Cato the Elder (234 BC-149 BC)

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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