Publilius Syrus Quotes

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

He who wrongs one threatens many.

Give your friend cause to blush, and you will be likely to lose him.

A great fortune enslaves its owner.

Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours.

There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.

It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.

The further the fall, the greater the hurt.

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

A god could hardly love and be wise.

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others

An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.

Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.

A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.

No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.

Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.

It is time, not the mind, that puts an end to love.

God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

No one should be judge in his own case.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.