Quotes from Publilius Syrus

You don't know what you can do until you try.

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.

When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

A god could hardly love and be wise.

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

No one knows what he can to do until he tries.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.