Publilius Syrus Quotes - Page 10

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

All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

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

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

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side.

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.

Successful guilt is the bane of society

Pardon others often, thyself never.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.