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Quotes by Publilius Syrus

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Learn to see in anothers calamity the ills which you should avoid.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

Prosperity makes friends adversity tries them.

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

He gives twice who gives promptly.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

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

We must master our good fortune or it will master us.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

The greatest of empires, is the empire over ones self.

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.