A Quote by Cato the Elder

He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.

Cato the Elder

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Cato the Elder
Roman - Statesman
234 BC - 149 BC

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.

Cato the Elder

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure how many species there are, where they can be found or how fast they're disappearing. It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

E. O. Wilson

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Socrates

where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death

Ted Hughes

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

Socrates

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Diogenes Laertius

After one has been in a lowly position, one knows how dangerous it is to climb to a high place, Once one has been in the dark, one knows how revealing it is to go into the light. Having maintained quietude, one knows how tiring compulsive activity is. Having nurtured silence, one knows how disturbing much talk is.

Zicheng Hong

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

Neil Gaiman

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Theodor Reik

Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before

Edna St. Vincent Millay

No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.