Cato the Elder

“Those who commit private theft pass their lives in confinement and fetters; plunderers of the public, in gold and purple.”

“Rem tene, verba sequentur.”

“The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.”

“I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.”

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

“Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.”

“Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.”

“All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.”

“[A]s Cato said of the statue: So many statues in that Forum of yours, may it not be better if they ask, Where is Cato's statue?"”

“Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.”

“The pursuits of commerce would be as admirable as they are profitable if they were not subject to so great risks: and so, likewise, of banking, if it was always honestly conducted. For our ancestors considered, and so ordained in their laws, that, while the thief should be cast in double damages, the usurer should make four-fold restitution.”