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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with P >> Quotes By Publilius Syrus |
| Quote #1: | "To do two things at once is to do neither." |
| Quote #2: | "He who lives in solitude may make his own laws." |
| Quote #3: | "Practice is the best of all instructors." |
| Quote #4: | "The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself." |
| Quote #5: | "The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself." |
| Quote #6: | "If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest." |
| Quote #7: | "No one knows what he can do till he tries." |
| Quote #8: | "Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness." |
| Quote #9: | "Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them." |
| Quote #10: | "Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back." |
| Quote #11: | "Debt is the slavery of the free." |
| Quote #12: | "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." |
| Quote #13: | "Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken." |
| Quote #14: | "You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot." |
| Quote #15: | "Beware the fury of a patient man." |
| Quote #16: | "It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door." |
| Quote #17: | "Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly." |
| Quote #18: | "A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things." |
| Quote #19: | "How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself." |
| Quote #20: | "Depend not on fortune, but on conduct." |
| Quote #21: | "Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world." |
| Quote #22: | "In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth." |
| Quote #23: | "An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason." |
| Quote #24: | "Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification." |
| Quote #25: | "If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft." |
| Quote #26: | "You should not live one way in private, another in public." |
| Quote #27: | "Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief." |
| Quote #28: | "Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid." |
| Quote #29: | "Never promise more than you can perform." |
| Quote #30: | "Look to be treated by others as you have treated others." |
| Quote #31: | "Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid." |
| Quote #32: | "We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all." |
| Quote #33: | "To-day is the pupil of yesterday." |
| Quote #34: | "It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well." |
| Quote #35: | "It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived." |
| Quote #36: | "Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." |
| Quote #37: | "For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous." |
| Quote #38: | "A rolling stone gathers no moss." |
| Quote #39: | "Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it." |
| Quote #40: | "Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last." |
| Quote #41: | "He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly." |
| Quote #42: | "Do not turn back when you are just at the goal." |
| Quote #43: | "A good reputation is more valuable than money." |
| Quote #44: | "A fair exterior is a silent recommendation." |
| Quote #45: | "Many receive advice, few profit by it." |
| Quote #46: | "It is not every question that deserves an answer." |
| Quote #47: | "It is a bad plan that admits of no modification." |
| Quote #48: | "Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage." |
| Quote #49: | "It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity." |
| Quote #50: | "It is better to learn late than never." |
| Quote #51: | "It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery." |
| Quote #52: | "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." |
| Quote #53: | "It is only the ignorant who despise education." |
| Quote #54: | "It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody." |
| Quote #55: | "Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he." |
| Quote #56: | "No man is happy who does not think himself so." |
| Quote #57: | "Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them." |
| Quote #58: | "No one should be judge in his own case." |
| Quote #59: | "Never find your delight in another's misfortune." |
| Quote #60: | "Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently." |
| Quote #61: | "Money alone sets all the world in motion." |
| Quote #62: | "Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many." |
| Quote #63: | "You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm." |
| Quote #64: | "What is left when honor is lost" |
| Quote #65: | "Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy." |
| Quote #66: | "The loss which is unknown is no loss at all." |
| Quote #67: | "We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have." |
| Quote #68: | "The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved." |
| Quote #69: | "A gift in season is a double favor to the needy." |
| Quote #70: | "There are some remedies worse than the disease." |
| Quote #71: | "While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity." |
| Quote #72: | "The end always passes judgement on what has gone before." |
| Quote #73: | "We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead." |
| Quote #74: | "As men, we are all equal in the presence of death." |
| Quote #75: | "Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion." |
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