Marcus Porcius Cato Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Marcus Porcius Cato

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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
- Marcus Porcius Cato

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens,
to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
- Marcus Porcius Cato

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

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Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof

As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact
opposite of what you're telling them to do,
you have to keep loving them just as much.
- Bill Cosby

This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane

Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as
it is white is not all that's beautiful.
- Bill Cosby

Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous

Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown

When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann

Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus

He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen

If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein

During life, none of us is 100% open to Spirit -
we have too much ego to do that.
Only at death do we give up our ego and completely open to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo

It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard

I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't.
But there was going to be when I began it.
It's just that something happened to it along the way."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill

Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer

The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall

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