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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 instigated the magistrates to punish all offenders, saying that they that did not prevent crimes when they might, encouraged them.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Roman Apophthegms, Cato the Elde...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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....
• I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• 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....