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Publilius Syrus
85 BC - 43 BC
Nationality: Roman
Category: Writer
Subcategory: Roman Writer

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

   

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

   

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

   

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

   

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

   

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

   

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

   

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

   

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

   

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

   

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

   

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

   

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

   

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

   

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

   

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

   

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

   

Take care that no one hates you justly.

   

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

   

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

   

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