Quotes by Syrus, Publilius

"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."

Syrus, Publilius on advice   

"It is bad advice that cannot be changed."

Syrus, Publilius on advice   

"That should be considered long which can be decided but once."

Syrus, Publilius on decisions   

"The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment."

Syrus, Publilius on disappointments   

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

Syrus, Publilius on education
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"It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies."

Syrus, Publilius on enemies   

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

Syrus, Publilius on eyes
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"Familiarity breeds contempt."

Syrus, Publilius on familiarity
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"An angry father is most cruel toward himself."

Syrus, Publilius on fathers
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"The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them."

Syrus, Publilius on favors   

"To refuse graciously is to confer a favor."

Syrus, Publilius on favors   

"When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all."

Syrus, Publilius on favors   

"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back."

Syrus, Publilius on fear   

"Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken."

Syrus, Publilius on fortune
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"It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay."

Syrus, Publilius on fraud   

"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."

Syrus, Publilius on friends and friendship   

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"We die as often as we lose a friend."

Syrus, Publilius on friends and friendship
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"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."

Syrus, Publilius on friends and friendship   

"If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest."

Syrus, Publilius on ambition   

"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."

Syrus, Publilius on gossip   

"One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people."

Syrus, Publilius on gratitude   

"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness."

Syrus, Publilius on greatness   

"There is no medicine to cure hatred."

Syrus, Publilius on hatred   

"Take care that no one hates you justly."

Syrus, Publilius on hatred   

"He who has lost honor can lose nothing more."

Syrus, Publilius on honor
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"No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not."

Syrus, Publilius on honor   

"Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it."

Syrus, Publilius on ignorance   

"One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid."

Syrus, Publilius on ingratitude   

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"If you would live innocently, seek solitude."

Syrus, Publilius on innocence
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"It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man."

Syrus, Publilius on integrity
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"It is not every question that deserves an answer."

Syrus, Publilius on interviews
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"A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation."

Syrus, Publilius on judgment and judges   

"He who spares the bad injures the good."

Syrus, Publilius on justice   

"They do injury to the good who spares the bad."

Syrus, Publilius on justice   

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

Syrus, Publilius on kindness   

"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."

Syrus, Publilius on kindness   

"The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted."

Syrus, Publilius on law and lawyers   

"Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm."

Syrus, Publilius on leadership
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"Pain forces even the innocent to lie."

Syrus, Publilius on lies and lying   

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

Syrus, Publilius on anger
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