Syrus Quotes

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.

The hope of reward is the solace of labor.

The losing side is full of suspicion.

Deliberando saepe perit occasio

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

When reason rules, money is a blessing.

When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.

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

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Pardon others often, thyself never.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

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

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

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

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

A friend must not be injured, even in jest.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

He gets through too late who goes too fast.

Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Discord gives a relish for concord.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

Union gives strength to the humble.