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| Cato the Elder
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking. Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. Be firm or mild as the occasion may require. Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing. Carthage must be destroyed. Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. Do not expect good from another's death. Don't promise twice what you can do at once. 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. In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve. In doing nothing men learn to do evil. It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears. Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. Patience is the greatest of all virtues. Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters. Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains; those who steal from the public treasury go dressed in gold and purple. 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. |
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