Publilius Syrus famous quotes

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Wise #Wisdom #Men

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Unhappy

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Pain #Mind #Body

Never promise more than you can perform.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Accountability #Promise

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Matter

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them
-- Publilius Syrus

#Love #Family #Happiness

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

#Life #Time #Each Day

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Powerful #Empires #Habit

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Pleasure #Endure #Variety

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Giving #Deliberation #Lengthy

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Pride #Men #Proud

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Greatness #Ascent #Despise

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Wisdom #Age #Observation

It matters not how long you live, but how well.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Life #Long #Matter

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Kindness #Force #Accomplish

Every vice has its excuse ready.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Vices #Excuse #Virtue

Debt is the slavery of the free.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Debt #Slavery

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Eye #Mind #Vision

Many receive advice, few profit by it.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Advice #Profit

It is better to learn late than never.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Honesty

A good reputation is more valuable than money.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Reputation #Valuable #Good Reputation

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.
-- Publilius Syrus

#People #Ungrateful #Doe

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

#Positive Thinking #Thinking #Trying

He who spares the bad injures the good.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Justice

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Regret #Silence #Silent

A rolling stone can gather no moss.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Change #Stones #Moss

No one reaches a high position without daring.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Confidence #Courage #Fear

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Courage #Holding Back #Daring

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Character #Silent #Recommendations

Only the bold get to the top.
-- Publilius Syrus

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Wise #Men #Mind

Some remedies are worse than the disease.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Disease #Medical #Remedy

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity
-- Publilius Syrus

#Attitude #Thinking #Opportunity

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief
-- Publilius Syrus

#Grief #Tears #Ready

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Shoes #Feet

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

#Double Standard #Favors #Needy

It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Plans

Practice is the best of all instructors.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Perseverance #Practice #Instructors

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Past #Forget The Past #Forget

In doubtful matters boldness is everything.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Matter #Doubtful #Boldness

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Enemy #Might #Treats

It is only the ignorant who despise education.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Education #Educational #Ignorant

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Change #Hands #Looks

When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Land #Sea #Clear

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Pain #Lying #Innocent

Speech is the mirror of the soul.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Mirrors #Soul #Speech

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

#Men #Dying #Equal

What is left when honor is lost?
-- Publilius Syrus

#Integrity #Honor #Lost

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

#Faults #Next #Innocent

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Army

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

#Glasses #Broken #Glitter

Through indecision opportunity is often lost.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Opportunity #Indecision #Lost

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Causes #Virtuous #Wrongdoing

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Judging #Innocence #Injustice

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Life Is Short #Men #Immortality

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

#Knowing #Imitation #Mischief

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

#Two #Individuality

Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Fall #Humility

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

#Taught #Bitter #Obedience

Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Kissing #Hatred #Countenance

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Fruit #Bitter

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Gold #Causes #Arguing

A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Gold #Frogs #Puddles

The future struggles that it may not become the past.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Future #Struggle #Past

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

Friendship either finds or makes equals.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Friendship

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Life #Long #Life Is Short

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Peaceful #Peaceful Life

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

#Mind #Black #Sides

Death laughs when old women frolic.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Laughing #Age #Old Woman

What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?
-- Publilius Syrus

#Evil #Long #Wish

Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Looks #Tough #Method

Man has been lent, not given, to life.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Men #Given

We may with advantage at times forget what we know.
-- Publilius Syrus

#May #Forget #Advantage

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Mad #Wish #Firsts

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Leniency #Pardon #Offence

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Granted #Theft #Refuse

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
-- Publilius Syrus

Lovers know what they want, but not what they need.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Want #Needs #Lovers

An angry lover tells himself many lies.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Lying #Lovers #Angry

Love, like a tear, rises in the eye and falls upon the breast.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Love #Fall #Eye

A god could hardly love and be wise.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Love #Wise #Being Wise

When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Love #Wise #Love You

The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Friendship #Ends

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

#Favors #Easy #Fortune

Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Fame

Always shun whatever may make you angry.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Anger #May #Angry

Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Men #Mind #He Man

An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Loss #Acquisition #Ends

In excess altercation, truth is lost.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Excess #Argument #Truth Is

Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Agreement #Made #Disagreement

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Procrastination #Delay #Doe

We die as often as we lose a friend.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Friendship #Friends #Feelings

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

#Kindness #Benefits #Favors

That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Long #Should

Frugality is misery in disguise.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Misery #Disguise #Frugality

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Inspirational #Rivers #Source

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Sea #Hands #Wind

There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Complaining #Fortune

Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Law #Giving #Doe