{"id":83988,"date":"2020-10-28T23:42:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T22:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?page_id=83988"},"modified":"2020-10-28T23:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T22:42:32","slug":"quotes-of-cato-the-younger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/golden-thoughts-of-romans\/quotes-of-cato-the-younger\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes of Cato the Younger"},"content":{"rendered":"    <div class=\"ramka_ze_zdjeciem float-right \"\n         style=\"\">\n\n        <div class=\"zdjecie\">\n            <img\n                class=\"ramka-ze-zdjeciem\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/800px-Cato_Volubilis_bronze_bust-317x400.jpg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/800px-Cato_Volubilis_bronze_bust-317x400.jpg 317w, https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/800px-Cato_Volubilis_bronze_bust-640x807.jpg 640w, https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/800px-Cato_Volubilis_bronze_bust.jpg 1200w\"                alt=\"Cato the Younger\"\n                width=\"250\"\n                height=\"315\"\n               \n               \n            \/>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/800px-Cato_Volubilis_bronze_bust.jpg\"\n               rel=\"fancybox\"\n               title=\"Cato the Younger\">\n                <div class=\"iover\">\n                    <div class=\"zicon\">\n                        <i class=\"fa fa-search-plus\"><\/i>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"opis\">\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/cato-the-younger\/\">Cato the Younger<\/a>            <\/div>\n        \n        \n    <\/div>\n    \n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/cato-the-younger\/\">Cato the Younger<\/a> (<em>Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis<\/em>) lived between 95-46 BCE. Roman politician and philosopher-stoic, living in harmony with righteousness and honesty.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"cyt\">\n<li>&#8220;Now, I am master of myself&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">description<\/span>: before <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-law\/suicide-in-world-of-romans\/\">suicide<\/a>. Senator Cato the Younger, after the siege of Carthage by <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/caesar-queen-of-nicomedes\/\">Caesar<\/a>, committed suicide, sticking the dagger in the chest and tearing the wound with his own hands. <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/apparently-donuts-were-already-loved-by-ancient-romans\/\">Apparently<\/a>, Cato did not want to witness the fall of the republic. The words were given in the source, written in Greek.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Plutarch, <em>Cato the Younger<\/em>, 70<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If you live properly, don&#8217;t worry about what the evil ones say&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">latin<\/span>:<em> [Cum recte vivis, ne cures verba malorum]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">descritpion<\/span>: instructing Lucius Caesar, after the defeat at Tapsus. Words given in Greek.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Plutarch, <em>Cato the Younger<\/em>, 66<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I begin to speak only when I\u2019m certain what I\u2019ll say isn\u2019t better left unsaid&#8221;\n<ul class=\"cyt2\">\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">descritpion<\/span>: Cato&#8217;s response to the accusation that he did not present his speeches to others at a young age. Words given in Greek.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"underlined\">source<\/span>: Plutarch, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/cato-the-elder\/\">Cato the Elder<\/a><\/em>, 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) lived between 95-46 BCE. Roman politician and philosopher-stoic, living in harmony with righteousness and honesty. &#8220;Now, I am master of myself&#8221; description: before suicide. Senator Cato the Younger, after the siege of Carthage by Caesar, committed suicide, sticking the dagger in the chest and tearing the wound with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":40186,"parent":70268,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83988","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83988\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}