Quotes from Publilius Syrus

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.

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

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

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

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Where there is unity there is always victory.

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

Successful guilt is the bane of society

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

It matters not how long you live, but how well.

What is left when honor is lost?

What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

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

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Yesterday should be the teacher of today.