Quotes By Publilius Syrus

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

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

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

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

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

What is left when honor is lost?

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

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

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

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

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

To do two things at once is to do neither.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

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.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

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

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

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

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.