Famous Quotes by Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives

Below are famous quotes by Cato the Elder, from Plutarch, Lives - Roman orator & politician (234 BC - 149 BC).

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.

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.

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