Publilius Syrus
No good man ever became suddenly rich.Collection: Men
A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.Collection: Love
The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.Collection: Men
If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.Collection: Granted
Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placentCollection: Latin
When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.Collection: Love
He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.Collection: Wise
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.Collection: Loss
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.Collection: Friendship
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.Collection: Black
The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.Collection: Vices
He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.Collection: Sleep
When reason rules, money is a blessing.Collection: Blessing
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.Collection: Men
What valor cannot win, flattery may.Collection: Winning
He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.Collection: Favors
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.Collection: Misery
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.Collection: Vices
When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.Collection: Two
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.Collection: Doe
Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no mossCollection: Change
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.Collection: Done
The poor lack much, the greedy everything.Collection: Self Worth
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.Collection: Betrayal
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.Collection: Favour
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.Collection: Ignorance
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.Collection: Wise
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.Collection: Remember
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.Collection: Sight
The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.Collection: Property
They live ill who expect to live always.Collection: Life
You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.Collection: Wine
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.Collection: Inspirational
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].Collection: Procrastination
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.Collection: Law
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.Collection: Death
It is better to arouse envy than pity.Collection: Writing
A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.Collection: Journey
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.Collection: Leadership
At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.Collection: Men
It is better to have a little than nothing.Collection: Advice
Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.Collection: Sleep
No one know what he can do till he tries.Collection: Trying
One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.Collection: Safety
One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.Collection: Men
Confidence is the only bond of friendship.Collection: Real
No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.Collection: Positive Thinking
He who spares the bad injures the good.Collection: Justice
Opportunity is lost by deliberation.Collection: Opportunity