I can pardon everyone’s mistakes but my own.
Cato the Elder (234–149 BC) Roman politician and orator [Marcus Portius Cato]
(Attributed)
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Cato the Elder
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]
(Attributed)
attributed in Bacon's Apothegms, #247
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
The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
Cato the Elder (234–149 BC) Roman politician and orator [Marcus Portius Cato]
Speech in the Roman Senate