Cato quotes.

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

"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."

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

"Patience is the greatest of all virtues."

"If you are ruled by your mind, you are a king; if by your body, a slave."

"The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new."

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."

"From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs."

These are fairly good statements.

Have you noticed how universal the Wisdom of the Human Race is?

The same wise sentiments turn up in different cultures, in different languages at different times.


ruveyn

Not completely universal if you look at how people behave in general, but there are those who are wise and there is everyone else. Wisdom is wisdom though, and it remains true because of the nature of truth itself. The same wisdom, learned either through experience or thinking things through ahead of time, can be learned by almost anyone anywhere.