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• By flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd
  Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause....
• Curse all his virtues! they 've undone his country.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act iv, Sc. 4...
• Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xii, Line 283...
• An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. -- Cato
• Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act i, Sc. 4
• What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act iv, Sc. 4...
• Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,-- The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book i, Line 684...
• It must be so,--Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?
  Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught?...
• The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act i, Sc. 1...