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• He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
  -- Marcus Porcius Cato, (234-149 BC), Roman statesma...
• He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
  -- Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), attributed...
• He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 930
• The more laws, the less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.
  C.) Roman Orator, poet, statesman -- De Officiis (44 B.C.)...
• he real friend... is, as it were, another self. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.
  C.) Roman Orator, poet, statesman -- De Amicitia (44 B.C.)...
• Human life nearly resembles iron. When you use it, it wears out.
  When you don't, rust consumes it. -- Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC) -- Carmen de moribu...
• Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chai
  hose who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple....
• In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman Orator, poet, statesman -- De Re Publica (54-51 B....
• It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
  -- Marcus Porcius Cato...