Quotes from Publilius Syrus

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

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.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

No one should be judge in his own case.

"Can't" never could do anything.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.

Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.

An angry father is most cruel toward himself.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

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

Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.