Publilius Syrus Quotes
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You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
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Never promise more than you can perform.
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Contra impudentem stulta est nimia ingenuitas
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We should provide in peace what we need in war.
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Velox consilium sequitur paenitentia.
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Do not take part in the council, unless you are called.
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Saxum volutum non obducitur musco
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Honesta fama melior pecunia est.
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Don't turn back when you are just at the goal.
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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
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There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
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The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
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It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
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It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
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It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
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He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
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The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
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It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.