Publilius Syrus

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

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

What is left when honor is lost?

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

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

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

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

Never promise more than you can perform.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

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

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.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

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

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

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

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

It is better to learn late than never.

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

Where there is unity there is always victory.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.

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