Definition of an orator A good man, skilled in speaking. Vir bonus, dicendi peritus.
More Quotes from Marcus Porcius Cato:
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.Marcus Porcius Cato
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Marcus Porcius Cato
Ended every speech in the Roman senate with the words For the rest, I wrote that Carthage should be destroyed. Ceterum senseo Carthaginem esse delendam.
Marcus Porcius Cato
He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
Marcus Porcius Cato
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
Marcus Porcius Cato
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