Marcus Porcius Cato

“Carthago delenda est.”

“Grasp the subject, the words will follow.”

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

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

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

“Patience is the greatest of all virtues.”

“The belly has no ears.”

“It is the part of a wise man to prefer prevention to cure.”

“Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.”

“Even a single hair casts a shadow.”

“I would rather be vanquished by a barbarian than ruled by a Greek.”

“It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.”

“There is a great force in the words of the dead.”

“All mankind is governed by their purses.”