It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.


Publilius Syrus

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SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
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Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod po...
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Repentance follows hasty counsels. [Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
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A guilty conscience never feels secure.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)
No good man ever became suddenly rich. [Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.]
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It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod peti...
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If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato...
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Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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If you can walk, you can run.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
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It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
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Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod po...
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Repentance follows hasty counsels. [Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
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A guilty conscience never feels secure.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)
No good man ever became suddenly rich. [Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.]
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It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod peti...
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If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato...
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Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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If you can walk, you can run.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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No one knows what he can do till he tries.
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A cock has great influence on this own dunghill.
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In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.]
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It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
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An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
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A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehic...
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It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]
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The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.
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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
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Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.
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One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are suffering. [Lat., Ingratus unus miseris omnibus n...
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To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart.
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Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
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It is not every question that deserves an answer.
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Union gives strength to the humble. [Lat., Auxilia humilia firma consensus facit.]
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To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]
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Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
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There are some remedies worse than the disease.
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Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.]
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An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]
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The next day is never so good as the day before.
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The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [Lat., Tam deest avaro quod h...
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The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
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It is better to have a little than nothing.
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To do two things at once is to do neither.
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He gets through too late who goes too fast.
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We may with advantage forget what we know.
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It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
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It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum exped...
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He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time. [Lat., Inprobe Neptunum accusat, qu...
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The losing side is full of suspicion. [Lat., Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio.]
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No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
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The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. [Lat., Injuriarum remedium est oblivio.]
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One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
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Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. [Lat., Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordi...
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Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
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A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. [Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.]
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When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
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Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laud...
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Some remedies are worse than the disease itself. [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
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A good reputation is more valuable than money.
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He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.]
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
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The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. [Lat., Aliena nobis,...
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We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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They make a desert and they call it peace.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat.
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Common report is not always wrong.
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By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]
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Some remedies are worse than the disease itself. [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
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The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
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Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind. [Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum ...
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Repentance follows hasty counsels. [Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
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No one should be judge in his own cause.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss.
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
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We die as often as we lose a friend.
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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
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The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
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A rolling stone can gather no moss.
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No one reaches a high position without daring.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
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All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Practice is the best of all instructors.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Opportunity is lost by deliberation.
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Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
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No one knows what he can do till he tries.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.
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The next day is never so good as the day before.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
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Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
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An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
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He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.
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Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
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If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
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That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
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There is no medicine to cure hatred.
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Take care that no one hates you justly.
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.
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One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.
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He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
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No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.
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To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
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It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
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To do two things at once is to do neither.
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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
What valor cannot win, flattery may.
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An angry father is most cruel toward himself.
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Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
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Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
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The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
He who spares the bad injures the good.
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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
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A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
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The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
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If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
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It is not every question that deserves an answer.
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
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Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
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The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
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The empire of custom is most mighty.
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It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
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In quarreling the truth is always lost
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Debt is the slavery of the free.
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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
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Confidence is the bond of friendship.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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Every vice has its excuse ready.
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Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Practice is the best of all instructors
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The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Debt is the slavery of the free
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Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
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The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body
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Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears
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A friendship that can end never really began
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He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
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Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
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We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
What is left when honor is lost?
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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
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A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
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Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
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No one knows what he can do until he tries.
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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
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The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
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Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
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The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
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You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
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Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
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The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
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Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
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Where there is unity there is always victory.
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The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
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