Quotes from Publilius Syrus

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.

Man has been lent, not given, to life.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.

Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.

Men will judge your past deeds by your last.

Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.

He who injures one man threatens many.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

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

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

It's a bad plan that can't be changed.

No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.