Cato

Cato preferred to be a good man rather than seem like it.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

A conference sponsored by the Cato Institute, a Washington-based research group supporting free market policies, Wednesday delivered a mixed appraisal of the new World Trade Organization after 10 years of its existence.

If anybody was ever wise, Cato was.

The Romans valued Cato highly, and Caesar even more.

The Romans used to value Cato at a great price, Caesar at a greater.