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Publilius Syrus: Quotes
- Advice
Many receive advice, few profit by it.: Maxims
- Appearance
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.: Maxims
- Companionship
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.: Maxims
- Cruelty
Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.: Maxims
- Disaster
Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.: Maxims
- Fortune and Chance
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.: Maxims
- Greed
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.: Maxims
- Happiness
No man is happy who does not think himself so.: Maxims
- Justice
The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted.: Maxims
- Life
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.: Maxims
- Necessity
Necessity gives the law, but does not itself submit to it.: Maxims
- Opportunity
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.: Maxims
- Plans
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.: Maxims
- Questions
It is not every question that deserves an answer.: Maxims
- Silence
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.: Maxims
- Sleep
He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.: Maxims
- Speech and Speakers
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.: Maxims
- Value
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.: Maxims