Top 457 Quotes & Sayings by Publilius Syrus - Page 2
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
You don't know what you can do until you try.
A rolling stone can gather no moss.
Every question does not deserve an answer.
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
It matters not how long you live, but how well.
A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
Death laughs when old women frolic.
An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.
The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.
The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.
Yesterday should be the teacher of today.
The gladiator lays his plans after he enters the arena.
Wise man also fears a weak enemy.
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.
The evil you do to others you may expect in return.
The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.
Equanimity is calamity's medicine.
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement?
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.
It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]
Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief
The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.
It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
No one reaches a high position without daring.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
Apathy borders upon folly.
When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.
The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.
Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.
Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed
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