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Publilius (less correctly Publius) Syrus, a Latin writer of maxims, flourished in the 1st century BC. He was an Assyrian who was brought as a slave to Italy, but by his wit and talent he won the favor of his master, who freed and educated him
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- A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
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- A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
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- A good reputation is more valuable than money.
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- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
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- A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
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- Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
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- An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
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- Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
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- Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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- As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
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- Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
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- Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
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- Debt is the slavery of the free.
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- Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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- Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
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- Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
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- Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
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- Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
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- For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
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- Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
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- Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.
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- Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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- He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
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- He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
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- How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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- I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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- If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
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- If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
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- In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
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- It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
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- It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
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- It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
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- It is better to learn late than never.
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- It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
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- It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
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- It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
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- It is not every question that deserves an answer.
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- It is only the ignorant who despise education.
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- It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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- Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
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- Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
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- Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
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- Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.
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- Many receive advice, few profit by it.
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- Money alone sets all the world in motion.
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- Necessity knows no law.
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- Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
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- Never promise more than you can perform.
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- No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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- No one knows what he can do till he tries.
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- No one knows what he can do until he tries.
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- No one should be judge in his own case.
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- Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
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- Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
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- Practice is the best of all instructors.
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- Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
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- Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
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- Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.
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- Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
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- The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.
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- The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
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- The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
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- The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
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- The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
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- The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
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- The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
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- The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
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- There are some remedies worse than the disease.
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- Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
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- To do two things at once is to do neither.
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- To-day is the pupil of yesterday.
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- Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
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- Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
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- We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
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- We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
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- We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
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- What is left when honor is lost
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- What is left when honor is lost?
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- While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
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- You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
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- You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
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- You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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