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• He said they that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Roman Apophthegms, Cato the Elde...
• Cato instigated the magistrates to punish all offenders, saying that they that did not prevent crimes when they might, encouraged them.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Roman Apophthegms, Cato the Elde...
• Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Roman Apophthegms, Cato the Elde...
• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise me
  for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men....
• Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Political Precep...
• After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
  -- Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.)...
• The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
  ... A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance....
• It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Marcus Cato...
• He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
  -- Marcus Porcius Cato, (234-149 BC), Roman statesma...