Quote #14
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
More from Cato the Elder
- Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
- Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
- Do not expect good from another's death.
- 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…
- Vir bonus, dicendi peritus
- I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
- Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
- In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.