Quotes By Publilius Syrus

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

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

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

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

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

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

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

Never promise more than you can perform.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

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

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

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

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

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.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

It is better to learn late than never.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.