Cato Elder
Cato Elder
quarrel words
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
age age-and-aging bad consider english-poet
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
fools fools-and-foolishness learn men wisdom wise
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
acts best good memory refresh
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
late thus work
It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
argue belly difficult food matter since
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
ask dead english-poet monument people rather
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
gift speech
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
approaches gods knows nearest silence though virtue
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.
body control mind ruled
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
cessation english-poet work
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.