Famous Quotes / Publilius Syrus
160 Quotations by Publilius Syrus
- 141. To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
- 142. To do two things at once is to do neither.
- 143. To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
- 144. To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
- 145. To-day is the pupil of yesterday.
- 146. Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
- 147. Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
- 148. Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
- 149. We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
- 150. We die as often as we lose a friend.
- 151. We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
- 152. We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
- 153. What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.
- 154. When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.
- 155. When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
- 156. While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
- 157. You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
- 158. You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
- 159. You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
- 160. You should not live one way in private, another in public.