I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

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

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

Even though work stops, expenses run on.