Seeing that statues were being set up in honour of many men, he said, ‘ As for myself, I had rather that men should ask why there is not a statue of Cato than why there is.’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 820 B, and the Life of M. Cato, chap. xix. (347 C).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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