Cato the Elder

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elder - from Plutarch, Lives
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder - On Agriculture
Even though work stops, expenses run on.
Cato the Elder - from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
Cato the Elder - from Plutarch, Lives
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

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.

- Cato the Elder