Quote #10
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Cato the Elder
- Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
- Vir bonus, dicendi peritus
- Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
- Do not expect good from another's death.
- Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth
- Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
- An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
- From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.