Publilius Syrus Quotes

Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.

That should be considered long which can be decided but once.

I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.

Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

It is better to have a little than nothing.

Every question does not deserve an answer.

He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

The evil you do to others you may expect in return.

To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart.

No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.

Divide the fire, and you will the sooner put it out.

Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

Be your money's master, not its slave.

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!

Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.

A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey.

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

It is better to arouse envy than pity.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.