Syrus, Publilius quotes
1st Century BC Roman WriterNo one reaches a high position without daring.
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Courage
That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
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Decisions
Confidence is the bond of friendship.
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Confidence
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
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Disappointments
One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
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Danger
A rolling stone can gather no moss.
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Change
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
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Caution
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
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Confession
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
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Greatness
The empire of custom is most mighty.
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Custom
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
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Gossip
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
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Fraud
Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
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Fortune
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
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Enemies
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
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Fear
Familiarity breeds contempt.
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Familiarity
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
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Friends and Friendship
We die as often as we lose a friend.
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Friends and Friendship
An angry father is most cruel toward himself.
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Fathers
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
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Eyes
One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.
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Gratitude
There is no medicine to cure hatred.
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Hatred
Take care that no one hates you justly.
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Hatred
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
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Friends and Friendship
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
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Honor
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
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Integrity
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
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Lies and Lying
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
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Judgment and Judges
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
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Interviews
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
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Ignorance
No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.
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Honor
Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.
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Leaders and Leadership
If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
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Innocence
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
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Praise
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
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Law and Lawyers
It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.
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Kindness
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
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Kindness
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
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Medicine
He who spares the bad injures the good.
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Justice
One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.
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Ingratitude
They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
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Justice
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
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Prosperity
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
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Possibilities
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
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Pain
He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
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Mind
Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
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Misfortunes
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
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Mistakes
The next day is never so good as the day before.
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Past
Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.
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Patience
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
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Power
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
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Pain
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
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Planning
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
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Necessity
Opportunity is lost by deliberation.
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Opportunity
All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
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Procrastination
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
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Prudence
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
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Remedies
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.
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Speech
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
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Risk
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
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Right and Rightness
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
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Silence
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
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Silence
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
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Society
A man s own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
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Success
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
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Thrift
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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Advice
To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one s self.
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Association
It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
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Advice
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
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Anger
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
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Education
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
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Favors
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
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Favors
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
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Favors
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
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Ambition
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
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Wisdom
He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.
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Vigilance
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
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Variety
At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man s work.
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Work
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
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Value
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
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Wrong
Every vice has its excuse ready.
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Vice