Top 457 Quotes & Sayings by Publilius Syrus
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Roman writer Publilius Syrus.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Take care that no one hates you justly.
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
It is better to learn late than never.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
He who spares the bad injures the good.
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Never promise more than you can perform.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
We die as often as we lose a friend.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
What is left when honor is lost?
Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Where there is unity there is always victory.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
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