Quotes By Publilius Syrus

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.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

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

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

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

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

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

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

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

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

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

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

What is left when honor is lost?

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

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.