Cato the Younger

“If you are in doubt, do nothing.”

“Consider in silence whatever any one says: for it is not every speaker that is a master of his words.”

“He is a fool that cannot conceal his own folly.”

“In doing nothing men learn to do evil.”

“I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.”

“After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”

“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”

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

“I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.”

“An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.”

“Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.”

“The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.”