Publilius Syrus
Dangerous he who thinks it safe to die!Collection: Thinking
A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.Collection: Women
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.Collection: Wise
The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.Collection: Lowest
If you can walk, you can run.Collection: Music
It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.Collection: Sometimes
Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.Collection: Giving
He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.Collection: Crime
An evil gain equals a loss.Collection: Loss
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.Collection: Guilt
The losing side is full of suspicion.Collection: Sides
He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.Collection: Neptune
Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things.Collection: Dark
We may with advantage at times forget what we know.Collection: May
The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.Collection: Judgement
A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.Collection: Medicine
It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.Collection: Anchors
Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.Collection: Loss
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.Collection: Men
Man has been lent, not given, to life.Collection: Men
We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.Collection: Destiny
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.Collection: Happiness
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.Collection: Favors
To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.Collection: Wealth
Solitude is the mother of anxieties.Collection: Mother
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.Collection: Greed
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.Collection: Kindness
There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.Collection: Gains
No one knows what he can do till he tries.Collection: Maturity
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.Collection: Kindness
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.Collection: Loss
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.Collection: Destiny
No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.Collection: Long
Even one hair has a shadow.Collection: Latin
Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.Collection: Please
It is time, not the mind, that puts an end to love.Collection: Mind
God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.Collection: Hands
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.Collection: Tears
It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.Collection: Criticism
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.Collection: Men
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.Collection: Single
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.Collection: Return
It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potesCollection: Fear
Even when there is no law, there is conscience.Collection: Life
Where there is unity, there is the victory.Collection: Latin
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.Collection: Depression
When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.Collection: Despise
Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.Collection: Scar
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.Collection: Suffering