Cato Elder
Cato Elder
acts best good memory refresh
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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.
age age-and-aging bad consider english-poet
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
late thus work
It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
cessation english-poet work
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
body control mind ruled
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
fools fools-and-foolishness learn men wisdom wise
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
argue belly difficult food matter since
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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.
quarrel words
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.