It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Planning
Never promise more than you can perform.
—Publilius Syrus
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Pain
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Society
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Guilt
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Friendship, Prosperity, Success & Failure, Adversity
Friendship neither finds or makes equals.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Friendship
It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Advice
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Ignorance
At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man’s work.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Work
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Honesty
Every vice has its excuse ready.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Virtue, Vice, Excuses
To do two things at once is to do neither.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Concentration, Focus and Priorities, Focus, Time Management, Effort
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Anger
It is well to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Caution
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Pleasure
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Time Management
Practice is the best of all instructors.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Practice
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Rightness, Right
If you share your friend’s crime, you make it your own.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Proverbs, Crime
It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.
—Publilius Syrus
All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Procrastination
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Failures, Mistakes, Role models, Wisdom
One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Danger
They live ill who expect to live always.
—Publilius Syrus
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Risk, Courage
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Unhappiness, Happiness, One liners, Forgiveness, Guilt
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Loss
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Medicine
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
—Publilius Syrus
Topics: Arguments
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- Seneca the Elder (Marcus Annaeus Seneca) Roman Rhetorician
- Quintilian Roman Rhetorician, Literary Critic
- Virgil Roman Poet
- Cornelius Nepos Roman Historian
- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Roman Poet
- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Roman Poet
- Julius Caesar Roman Ruler
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