Publilius Syrus Quotes

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Depend not on fortune but on conduct.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

As men we are all equal in the presence of death.

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.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.