Memorable Quotes and quotations from Cato the Elder

Cato the Elder Roman orator & politician (234 BC - 149 BC)


Cato the Elder - from Plutarch, Lives
- 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 -
- 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.

Cato the Elder -
- Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Cato the Elder -
- Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder -
- From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

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

Cato the Elder -
- Lighter is the wound foreseen.

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

Cato the Elder - from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae
- An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Cato the Elder - On Agriculture
- Even though work stops, expenses run on.

Cato the Elder -
- Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Cato the Elder - from Plutarch, Lives
- I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.