Quotes by Publilius Syrus

• How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
• He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
• He who spares the bad injures the good.
• He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
• He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
• Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
• God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
• From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
• I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
• It is better to learn late than never.
• Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
• Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
• If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
• It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
• Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
• It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
• The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
• It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
• It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
• It is not every question that deserves an answer.
• It is only the ignorant who despise education.
• Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
• Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
• Never promise more than you can perform.
• No one knows what he can do until he tries.
• One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
• It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
• What is left when honor is lost?
• They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
• A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.
• A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
• A good reputation is more valuable than money.
• A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
• Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
• An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
• An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
• You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
• You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
• You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
• While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
• The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
• When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
• Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
• We die as often as we lose a friend.
• We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
• Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
• Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
• Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
• To do two things at once is to do neither.
• 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.
• There are some remedies worse than the disease.
• The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
• The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
• The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
• Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
• Where there is unity there is always victory.
• To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
• Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
• The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
• The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
• The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
• Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
• The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
• The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
• The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
• Speech is the mirror of the soul.
• Some remedies are worse than the disease.
• Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
• Practice is the best of all instructors.
• Where there is unity, there is always victory.