Hopes and fears Quotes by Cato the Younger

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's…

— Cato the Younger

The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much…

— Cato the Younger

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

— Cato the Younger

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

— Cato the Younger

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

— Cato the Younger

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

— Cato the Younger

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

— Cato the Younger

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

— Cato the Younger

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

— Cato the Younger

Do not expect good from another's death.

— Cato the Younger

This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the…

— Cato the Younger

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

— Cato the Younger