We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

—Cato the Elder

About Cato the Elder

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Marcus Porcius Cato (; 234–149 BC), also known as Cato the Censor (Latin: Censorius), the Elder and the Wise, was a Roman soldier, senator, and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization. He was the first to write history in Latin with his Origines, a now fragmentary work...

More quotations from Cato the Elder

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 right.

—Cato the Elder

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

—Cato the Elder

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

—Cato the Elder

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

—Cato the Elder

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

—Cato the Elder

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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

—Bertrand Russell

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each others backs. It's seriously twisted.

—Melody Carlson in The Jerk Magnet

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If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

—Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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