Authors From Syria

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Familiarity breeds contempt."

"No tears are shed, when an enemy dies."

"To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them."

"The bow too tensely strung is easily broken."

"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."

"Practice is the best of all instructors."

"Audendo virtus crescit, tardando timor."

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

"Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter."

"Alienum aes homini ingenuo acerba est servitus."

"Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio."

"Velox consilium sequitur paenitentia."

"Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est."

"Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere."

"Invitat culpam qui peccatum praeterit"

"Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest."

"Necessitas dat legem non ipsa accipit."

"Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur."

"In tranquillo esse quisque gubernator potest."

"Formonsa facies muta commendatio est."

"Fortunam citius reperias quam retineas."

"Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur."

"Fortuna cum blanditur, captatum venit."

"Inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia."

"Honesta turpitudo est pro causa bona."

"He who helps the guilty, shares the crime."

"Contra impudentem stulta est nimia ingenuitas"

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

"Honesta fama melior est pecunia."

"Receive an injury rather than do one."

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