Quotes By Publilius Syrus

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

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

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

What is left when honor is lost?

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

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

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

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

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

To do two things at once is to do neither.

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.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

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

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

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

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

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.