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I can pardon everyone’s mistakes but my own.

Cato the Elder (234-149 BC) Roman politician and orator [Marcus Portius Cato]
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Cato the Elder (234-149 BC) Roman politician and orator [Marcus Portius Cato]
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attributed in Bacon's Apothegms, #247

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After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Cato the Elder (234-149 BC) Roman politician and orator [Marcus Portius Cato]
(Attributed)
in Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Marcus Cato," ch. 19, sec. 4

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