Quote #25

Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art.

More from Cato the Elder

  1. Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
  2. The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
  3. Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
  4. 'Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
  5. Not that I might die learned-but that I might not die unlearned.
  6. We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
  7. Lighter is the wound foreseen.
  8. Fronte capillata, post est Occasio calva.

All Cato the Elder quotes