Top 15 Cato the Elder Quotes

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

I begin to speak only when I'm certain what I'll say isn't better left unsaid.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

If you are late in doing one thing you will be late in doing everything.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

The master should have the selling habit, not the buying habit.

Seize the thing, the words will follow.

A farm is like a man--however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left.

However often you go, a good piece of a land will please you more at each visit.

I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.

Save for...Caesar no one while sober and of sound mind has entered upon public affairs for the purpose of ruining the commonwealth.

Let us rise, my friends, and strive to fill,
This little interval, this pause of life
With resolution, friendship and Roman bravery.

True fortitude is seen in great exploits,
That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides,
All else is towering frenzy and distraction.

Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.