Publilius Syrus
81 quotations
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
An angry father is most cruel toward himself.
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
We die as often as we lose a friend.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
There is no medicine to cure hatred.
Take care that no one hates you justly.
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.