Famous Quotes by Publilius Syrus
Below are famous quotes by Publilius Syrus - (~100 BC).
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
It is better to learn late than never.
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
Necessity knows no law.
Never promise more than you can perform.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
No one should be judge in his own case.
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To-day is the pupil of yesterday.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
What is left when honor is lost?
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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