Quotes from Publilius Syrus

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

They live ill who expect to live always.

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

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

He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

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

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

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

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

It is time, not the mind, that puts an end to love.

Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

In love, anger is always false.

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

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.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.