Publilius Syrus

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

A friendship that can end never really began.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

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

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

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

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

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

He who helps the guilty shares the crime.

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

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Union gives strength to the humble.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

A small loan makes a debtor; a great one, an enemy.

There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy

Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

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

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

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

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

Never promise more than you can perform.

A small debt produces a debtor a large one an enemy.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

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

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Successful guilt is the bane of society.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

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

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

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Where there is unity there is always victory.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

What is left when honor is lost?

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

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

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

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

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

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.

Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.

The coward calls himself cautious the miser thrifty.

It is better to learn late than never.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Through indecision opportunity is often lost.

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

Art has a double face of expression and illusion just like science has a double face the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

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

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

Delay is hateful but it gives wisdom.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

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

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

The circumstances of others seem good to us while ours seem good to others.

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

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

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

The loss of a friend is the greatest of losses.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.