Cato the Elder

"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. "

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

"Even though work stops, expenses run on. "

"From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs. "

"Grasp the subject, the words will follow. "

"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. "

"I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one. "

"Lighter is the wound foreseen. "

"Patience is the greatest of all virtues. "

"Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity. "

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

"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. "