Publilius Syrus Quotes
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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
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Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest.
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Inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia.
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The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
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Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
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An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
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Audendo virtus crescit, tardando timor.
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Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.
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In sterculino plurimum gallus potest.
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The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
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We die as often as we lose a friend.
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The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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To do two things at once is to do neither.
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It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
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The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.
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The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.