(14 quotes found)
“If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.”
Cato The Elder
“Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.”
“An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.”
“It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work”
“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.”
“Carthage must be destroyed.”
“After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
“The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.”
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”