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• It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
  -- Marcus Porcius Cato...
• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise me
  for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men....
• Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Roman Apophthegms, Cato the Elde...
• He said that in his whole life he most repented of three thing
  one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land...
• So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle...
• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse
  it has no power to harm, without or within....
• Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 5...
• Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees.
  They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit." -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Phocio...
• Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 67...