Quotes from Publilius Syrus

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely

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

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

Take care that no one hates you justly.

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety

You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

Successful guilt is the bane of society

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself

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

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

In quarreling the truth is always lost.

Be not the first one to quarrel, nor the last to make up

Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom.

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

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

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

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.