https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:45:51 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/cato-the-elder/675/ https://wist.info/cato-the-elder/675/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=675 I can pardon everyone’s mistakes but my own.

Cato the Elder (234–149 BC) Roman politician and orator [Marcus Portius Cato]
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/cato-the-elder/675/feed/ 0 675 https://wist.info/cato-the-elder/677/ https://wist.info/cato-the-elder/677/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=677 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 ]]> https://wist.info/cato-the-elder/677/feed/ 0 677 https://wist.info/cato-the-elder/678/ https://wist.info/cato-the-elder/678/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=678 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]
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in Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Marcus Cato," ch. 19, sec. 4 ]]> https://wist.info/cato-the-elder/678/feed/ 0 678 https://wist.info/cato-the-elder/30823/ https://wist.info/cato-the-elder/30823/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:39:44 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=30823 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]
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