More Publilius Syrus Quotes

1. A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. ...
   
2. A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. ...
   
3. A good reputation is more valuable than money. ...
   
4. A rolling stone gathers no moss. ...
   
5. A suspicious mind always looks on the black side o ...
   
6. Admonish your friends privately, but praise them o ...
   
7. An angry father is most cruel towards himself. ...
   
8. An angry man is again angry with himself when he r ...
   
9. Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification ...
   
10. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. ...
    
11. As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. ...
    
12. Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. ...
    
13. Beware the fury of a patient man. ...
    
14. Count not him among your friends who will retail y ...
    
15. Debt is the slavery of the free. ...
    
16. Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. ...
    
17. Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to g ...
    
18. Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. ...
    
19. Every day should be passed as if it were to be our ...
    
20. Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay fo ...
    
21. For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous. ...
    
22. Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, t ...
    
23. Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion. ...
    
24. He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. ...
    
25. He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. ...
    
26. How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. ...
    
27. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence ...
    
28. If you refuse where you have always granted you in ...
    
29. If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the low ...
    
30. In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of t ...
    
31. It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. ...
    
32. It is a consolation to the wretched to have compan ...
    
33. It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please ev ...
    
34. It is better to learn late than never. ...
    
35. It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when y ...
    
36. It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. ...
    
37. It is no profit to have learned well, if you negle ...
    
38. It is not every question that deserves an answer. ...
    
39. It is only the ignorant who despise education. ...
    
40. It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. ...
    
41. It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturi ...
    
42. Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which ...
    
43. Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a ...
    
44. Look to be treated by others as you have treated o ...
    
45. Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who in ...
    
46. Many receive advice, few profit by it. ...
    
47. Money alone sets all the world in motion. ...
    
48. Necessity knows no law. ...
    
49. Never find your delight in another's misfortune. ...
    
50. Never promise more than you can perform. ...
    
51. No man is happy who does not think himself so. ...
    
52. No one knows what he can do till he tries. ...
    
53. No one should be judge in his own case. ...
    
54. Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. ...
    
55. Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commissi ...
    
56. Practice is the best of all instructors. ...
    
57. Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. ...
    
58. Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. ...
    
59. Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so ...
    
60. The end always passes judgement on what has gone b ...
    
61. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does th ...
    
62. The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death ...
    
63. The gods never let us love and be wise at the same ...
    
64. The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, ...
    
65. The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolv ...
    
66. The loss which is unknown is no loss at all. ...
    
67. The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it. ...
    
68. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ...
    
69. There are some remedies worse than the disease. ...
    
70. Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. ...
    
71. To do two things at once is to do neither. ...
    
72. To-day is the pupil of yesterday. ...
    
73. Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. ...
    
74. Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. ...
    
75. We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to ...
    
76. We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to b ...
    
77. We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to t ...
    
78. What is left when honor is lost ...
    
79. While we stop to think, we often miss our opportun ...
    
80. You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an ...
    
81. You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot ...
    
82. You should not live one way in private, another in ...