Publilius Syrus Quotes - Famous Quotes by Publilius Syrus
Born: 0100-00-00
Died: 0100-00-00
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A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
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A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
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A good reputation is more valuable than money.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss.
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A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
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An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
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An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
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Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
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Debt is the slavery of the free.
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Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
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Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
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Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
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For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
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Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
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Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.
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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
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He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
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If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
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In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
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It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
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It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
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It is better to learn late than never.
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It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
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It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
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It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
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It is not every question that deserves an answer.
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.
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It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
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Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
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Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.
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Many receive advice, few profit by it.
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Money alone sets all the world in motion.
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Necessity knows no law.
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Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
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Never promise more than you can perform.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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No one knows what he can do till he tries.
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No one should be judge in his own case.
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Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
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Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
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Practice is the best of all instructors.
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
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Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
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Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.
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The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
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The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
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The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
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The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
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The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
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The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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There are some remedies worse than the disease.
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Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
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To do two things at once is to do neither.
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To-day is the pupil of yesterday.
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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
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We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
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We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
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We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
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What is left when honor is lost
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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
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You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
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You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
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You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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