Publilius Syrus

Quotes

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