Cato the Elder Quotes

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

Cato the Elder

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

  

  Cato the Elder
  • People
  • Life
  • Politics