Inspirational Quotes by Publilius Syrus · Page 3

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

— Publilius Syrus

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

— Publilius Syrus

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

— Publilius Syrus

No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

— Publilius Syrus

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

— Publilius Syrus

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.

— Publilius Syrus

He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Publilius Syrus

It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.

— Publilius Syrus

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

— Publilius Syrus

When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.

— Publilius Syrus

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

— Publilius Syrus

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.

— Publilius Syrus

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

— Publilius Syrus

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

— Publilius Syrus

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

— Publilius Syrus

I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent

— Publilius Syrus

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

— Publilius Syrus

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

— Publilius Syrus

He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

— Publilius Syrus

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

— Publilius Syrus

There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.

— Publilius Syrus

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

— Publilius Syrus

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.

— Publilius Syrus

There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.

— Publilius Syrus

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

— Publilius Syrus

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

— Publilius Syrus

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

— Publilius Syrus

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

— Publilius Syrus

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

— Publilius Syrus

When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.

— Publilius Syrus

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

— Publilius Syrus

If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.

— Publilius Syrus

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

— Publilius Syrus

Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.

— Publilius Syrus

The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.

— Publilius Syrus

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

— Publilius Syrus

He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Publilius Syrus

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

— Publilius Syrus