Quotes By Publilius Syrus

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

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

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

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

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

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

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

What is left when honor is lost?

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

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

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

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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.

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.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

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.