Publilius Syrus

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

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

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

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

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

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

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

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

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

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

You should not live one way in private, another in public.