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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...
• 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...
• 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 ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book ii, Sect. 20...
• To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said, "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...