Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Publius Syrus


1. A guilty conscience never feels secure.
2. "A WoMaN EiThEr lOvEs oR HaTeS."
3. Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
4. “Beware the fury of a patient man.”
5. Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency.
6. Do not care how many, but whom, you please.
7. Every madman thinks all other men are mad.
8. He hurts the absent who quarrels with a drunken man.
9. He hurts the good who spares the bad.
10. He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.
11. He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
12. He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
13. He who overlooks a fault, invites the commission of another.
14. “I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
15. It is better to learn late than never.
16. It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
17. It is not every question that deserves an answer.
18. It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.
19. It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
20. Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
21. Man has been lent, not given, to life.
22. O life! long to the wretched, short to the happy.
23. One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
24. Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind.
25. The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.
26. “The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.”
27. The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
28. The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.
29. "To do two things at once is to do neither."
30. You must make a lover angry if you wish him to love.
[Lat., Cogas amantem irasci, amare si velis.]
31. You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.
32. “You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.”