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Quotes of Publilius Syrus [35]
- Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
- It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
- It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
- It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
- If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
- Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
- Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
- An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
- Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
- A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
- It is only the ignorant who despise education.
- The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
- As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
- Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
- In quarrelling the truth is always lost.
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