Cato the Younger

“Unconquer’d Cato, virtuous in extreme.”

“Victrix causa deis placuit, sed vieta Catoni.”

“Nay, men, if any of you had heeded what I was ever foretelling and advising, ye would now neither be fearing a single man nor putting your hopes in a single man.”

“I will begin to speak when I am not going to say what were better left unsaid.”

“Bear in mind, that if through toil you accomplish a good deed, that toil will quickly pass from you, the good deed will not leave you so long as you live; but if through pleasure you do anything dishonourable, the pleasure will quickly pass away, that dishonourable act will remain with you for ever.”