Words matter. These are the best Publilius Syrus Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We die as often as we lose a friend.
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Where there is unity there is always victory.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
What is left when honor is lost?
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
Never promise more than you can perform.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Take care that no one hates you justly.
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.
He who spares the bad injures the good.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
