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After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.Cato The Elder
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.Cato The Elder
3 Quotes & Sayings By Cato The Elder
Cato the Elder was a Roman politician and writer of the late Roman Republic. He lived inUtica, Africa during the last years of the Roman Republic. He was a friend of Scipio Africanus. He is also known as Cato the Younger, from his cognomen agnomen younger, which referred to his relative youth when he was consul in 149 BC. He is referred to in Plutarch's Life of Cato in connection with a prophecy concerning the victory in battle which Fortune would bestow upon himself and Cato
The latter (Plutarch) adds that he "would come back to take vengeance on those who had killed his father." The story may be apocryphal.