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Top 20 Cato the Younger Quotes (2025 Update)

Cato the Younger Quote: “Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.”

1. “Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “Speak briefly and to the point.”

2. “Speak briefly and to the point.”

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Cato the Younger Quote: “I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.”

3. “I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.”

4. “Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.”

— Cato the Younger

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Cato the Younger Quote: “In doing nothing men learn to do evil.”

5. “In doing nothing men learn to do evil.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.”

6. “Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.”

7. “The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.”

8. “Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.”

9. “For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason...”

10. “I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason...”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.”

11. “Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.”

12. “The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.”

13. “All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.”

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Cato the Younger Quote: “Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.”

14. “Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.”

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Cato the Younger Quote: “Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.”

15. “Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.”

16. “Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “Never travel by sea when you can go by land.”

17. “Never travel by sea when you can go by land.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “Do not expect good from another’s death.”

18. “Do not expect good from another’s death.”

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Cato the Younger Quote: “A honest man is seldom a vagrant.”

19. “A honest man is seldom a vagrant.”

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Cato the Younger Quote: “I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.”

20. “I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.”

21. “In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.”

22. “Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.”

— Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger Quote: “Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.”

23. “Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.”

— Cato the Younger

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