Publilius Syrus

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

"Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest."

"Money alone sets all the world in motion."

"It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery."

"Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it."

"Don't turn back when you are just at the goal."

"No one should be judge in his own cause."

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

"They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine."

"Either be silent or say something better than silence."

"Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself."

"The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self."

"God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones."

"No man is happy who does not think himself so."

"Never find your delight in another's misfortune."

"Never promise more than you can perform."

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

"He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself."

"We should provide in peace what we need in war."

"No one knows what he can do till he tries."

"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."

"The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich."

"To do two things at once is to do neither."

"Familiarity breeds contempt."

"Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he."

"Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as what it has not."

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."

"It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity."

"It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody."

"Be your money's master, not its slave."

"A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it."

"He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion."

"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself."

"Saxum volutum non obducitur musco"

"Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently."

"Contra impudentem stulta est nimia ingenuitas"

"Honesta fama melior est pecunia."

"To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent."

"Audendo virtus crescit, tardando timor."

"Ames parentem, si aequus est, si aliter, feras."

"Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends."

"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."

"Alienum aes homini ingenuo acerba est servitus."

"Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter."

"The loss which is unknown is no loss at all."

"We are interested in others, when they are interested in us."

"He dies twice who perishes by his own hand."

"Receive an injury rather than do one."

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

"There is no penalty attached to a lover's oath."