“Deliberando saepe perit occasio”
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Famous Publilius Syrus Quotes
“You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.”
“The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.”
“It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.”
“The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them”
“At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.”
“We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.”
“Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].”
“Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.”
“The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.”
“In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.”
“Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.”
“Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.”
“It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes”
“He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.”
“Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur”
