Quotes By Publilius Syrus

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

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

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

To do two things at once is to do neither.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

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.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

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

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

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

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

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.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

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

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

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Where there is unity there is always victory.

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

Never promise more than you can perform.

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

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

Take care that no one hates you justly.