Publilius Syrus Quotes

You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

What is left when honor is lost?

Never promise more than you can perform.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

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

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence.

Where there is unity there is always victory.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

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

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

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

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