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


Publilius Syrus

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I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
MOTHER TERESA I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
HORACE You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even w...
DENISE LEVERTOV Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.
BARRY MCGUIRE Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace
BARRY MCGUIRE I never expected anything like this, especially your next door neighbor.
DANIEL TORRES Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.
BARRY MCGUIRE Neighbor: the state next door
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT My next-door neighbor called and said, 'I have some bad news: Your apartment is ruined,' ... They ha...
BO APOSTOLACHE Oh, I gave some to my neighbor next door.
RUTH MAHL I'm not so sure I want my next-door neighbor, as much as I like him or her, to be on the Supreme Cou...
CHUCK HAGEL Lock your door and keep your neighbor honest
CHINESE PROVERBS Usually, the most common type of attacker looks like your next door neighbor. They are married and h...
BARRY TATE The real shock was when somebody would turn into their driveway, so to speak, and their next-door ne...
MAYOR SCOTT SLIFKA I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
DOLLY PARTON I may look like the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next door to me.
ELISABETH SHUE I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
CAMPBELL SCOTT We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
G. K. CHESTERTON I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.
ELISABETH SHUE I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them...
CAMPBELL SCOTT I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to s...
JUDITH JAMISON It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people...
MAYA ANGELOU Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.
C.S. LEWIS Look at the world and think about a catastrophic disaster where the cell phone towers went dead. How...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH “When the next house is on fire, 'tis high time to look to your own.”
ESAN MAGAZINE S he has a next door neighbor that is also elderly, and this person was alone and she was not able t...
CHARLES BUCKLEY He was a wonderful human being. As powerful as he was, he acted like he was your neighbor next door....
RYAN COSTELLO If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor...
SEBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administr...
GARY JOHNSON What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your...
ANTHONY LICCIONE We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE If everyone will endeavor to know his next door neighbor well,then there certainly will be no crimin...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top o...
LAURENCE STERNE I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top o...
LAURENCE STERNE I just want to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants and when i...
KATHLEEN GLASGOW The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account f...
ALEISTER CROWLEY In many ways, we're just the friendly neighbor next door lending a hand to someone whose own friendl...
LINDA ALLEN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER You fight for your rights when your rights are being denied. When the building is on fire, you don't...
RICHARD GILBERT I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool h...
TRACEY ULLMAN The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to accou...
ALEISTER CROWLEY People know they have seen me somewhere, but they don't know where. They think I'm their nex...
TINA MAJORINO If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the t...
CAT POWER When someone tells you what you are doing is impossible use it to fuel your fire.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. Thi...
LEV GROSSMAN It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
HARRY S TRUMAN Life's irony;Even when you are not willing to partake in any opportunity,it sometimes Look for your ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I don't think about it too much and jinx myself. It would be nice to look back when I'm 65 and fat, ...
DEVAN LONG It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
HARRY S TRUMAN It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.
HARRY TRUMAN Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is wh...
RONALD REAGAN I've experienced it. It's pretty easy to start a fire. Anytime you weld, you can't see. You got your...
FARON MILLER Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ...
CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:

1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY When you put your passion into your desire, when it becomes a fire that threatens to consume you unl...
STEPHEN RICHARDS When it happens right next door, it really hits home.
JACKIE HARDER Stop living within the confines of how others define you! You weren't created to live their life; yo...
STEVE MARABOLI Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.
TYRIUS MAXIMUS I try to shy away from playing cranky people, but if it's just a funny next-door neighbor or bus...
FRED WILLARD My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. S...
LONI ANDERSON We punish ourselves, by the acts of violence that we inflict; whether it be in this lifetime, or the...
ENRIQUE VEGA All of a sudden,
You seemed to be
Stranger than a fiction,
to me.
SHILLPI S BANERRJI Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
HORACE For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours.
GORDON BROWN If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Your life can sometimes resemble an revolving door , when it spins your exit can pass right by you ,...
DORIAN THOMAS VON KLAUS Your neighbor is the man who needs you
ELBERT HUBBARD The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next ...
BENJAMIN HAYDON I was never the girl next door.
BETTIE PAGE Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
E.E. CUMMINGS It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
HARRY TRUMAN It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
HARRY S TRUMAN Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm al...
JEFFREY KLEIN People got the right to know they live next door to a dog that's declared dangerous.
LARRY ADAMS Depression Depression does not manifest as arrogance, anger, violence or settling scores. Depression...
APURVA GAGLANI God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has t...
FRANCIS CHAN The latent abundance of your inner most resources matter less. What matters most is the impact you c...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The latent abundance of your inner most resources matters less. What matter most is the impact you c...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
DIANE SETTERFIELD

More Publilius Syrus

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