The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.
Publilius Syrus Quotations
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It is better to learn late than never.
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
What is left when honor is lost
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
What is left when honor is lost?
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.
It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Never promise more than you can perform.
To-day is the pupil of yesterday.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Debt is the slavery of the free.
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
No one should be judge in his own case.
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
Necessity knows no law.
He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.
Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.