A friendship that can end never really began.
Publilius Syrus
- Occupations
- writer, playwright, poet
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A god could hardly love and be wise.
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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss.
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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
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Every one excels in something in which another fails.
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
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Fortune is like glass,--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
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God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
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It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it.
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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
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Many receive advice, few profit by it.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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No tears are shed when an enemy dies.
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Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
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Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
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The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
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The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted.
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There are some remedies worse than the disease.
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To do two things at once is to do neither.
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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
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We are interested in others when they are interested in us.
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What is left when honour is lost?
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When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
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When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.
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You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
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