Syrus Quotes

He who spares the bad injures the good.

When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.

Even one hair has a shadow.

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.

What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?

A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

In love, anger is always false.

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

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

Successful guilt is the bane of society

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.

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

Wise man also fears a weak enemy.

Where there is unity, there is the victory.

If you can walk, you can run.

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.

There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.

We die as often as we lose a friend.