A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
Publilius Syrus
Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus,/
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Publilius Syrus
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Publilius Syrus
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Publilius Syrus
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
Publilius Syrus
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
Publilius Syrus
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Publilius Syrus
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Publilius Syrus
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
Publilius Syrus
It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
Publilius Syrus
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
Publilius Syrus
Never promise more than you can perform.
Publilius Syrus
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
Publilius Syrus
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
Publilius Syrus
To-day is the pupil of yesterday.
Publilius Syrus
We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
Publilius Syrus
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Publilius Syrus
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
It is better to learn late than never.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.
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Publilius Syrus, Maxims
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
No one should be judge in his own case.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
What is left when honor is lost?
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
Publilius Syrus, Maxims
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.
Publilius Syrus, Sententiae (c. 43 BC)
