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• Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Roman Apophthegms, Cato the Elde...
• He said they that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Roman Apophthegms, Cato the Elde...
• 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...
• It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them. -- Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria
• It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Marcus Cato...
• 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...
• Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Political Precep...
• The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
  ... A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance....
• Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them.
  When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them,--thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong...