Publilius Syrus Quotes

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.

The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.

Never find delight in another's misfortune.

No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

With little loan you get a friend, with big loan an enemy.

Dangerous he who thinks it safe to die!

Money should be mastered, not served.

When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.

No one know what he can do till he tries.

Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.

Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.

He who fears his servants is less than a servant.

He is the least in want who is the least covetous.

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.

All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.

He who injures one man threatens many.

He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.

They live ill who expect to live always.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Where there is unity, there is always victory

We Are Interested In Others When They Are Interested In Us

What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Audacity augments courage hesitation fear.

As men we are all equal in the presence of death.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

No one knows what he can to do until he tries.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

Prosperity makes friends adversity tries them.

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

He gives twice who gives promptly.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

We must master our good fortune or it will master us.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.