Publilius Syrus

"A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. "

"A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. "

"A good reputation is more valuable than money. "

"A rolling stone gathers no moss. "

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

"Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly. "

"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. "

"Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification. "

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. "

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

"Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. "

"Beware the fury of a patient man. "

"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. "

"Debt is the slavery of the free. "

"Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. "

"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness. "

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

"Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. "

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. "

"For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous. "

"Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. "

"Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion. "

"He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. "

"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. "

"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. "

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. "

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

"If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. "

"In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. "

"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. "

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

"It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. "

"It is better to learn late than never. "

"It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. "

"It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. "

"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. "

"It is not every question that deserves an answer. "

"It is only the ignorant who despise education. "

"It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. "

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

"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. "

"Look to be treated by others as you have treated others. "

"Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them. "

"Many receive advice, few profit by it. "

"Money alone sets all the world in motion. "

"Never find your delight in another's misfortune. "

"Never promise more than you can perform. "

"No man is happy who does not think himself so. "

"No one knows what he can do till he tries. "

"No one should be judge in his own case. "

"Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. "

"Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. "

"Practice is the best of all instructors. "

"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. "

"Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. "

"Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he. "

"The end always passes judgement on what has gone before. "

"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. "

"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. "

"The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved. "

"The loss which is unknown is no loss at all. "

"There are some remedies worse than the disease. "

"Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. "

"To do two things at once is to do neither. "

"To-day is the pupil of yesterday. "

"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. "

"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. "

"We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. "

"We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all. "

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

"What is left when honor is lost "

"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. "

"You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. "

"You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. "

"You should not live one way in private, another in public. "