Quote #13
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Cato the Elder
- Do not expect good from another's death.
- From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
- Vir bonus, dicendi peritus
- Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
- Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
- 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 righ…
- Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
- I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.