Publilius Syrus Quotes
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Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.
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Patience provoked often turns to fury.
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Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of everything.
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Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
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Practice is the best of all instructors.
[Practice]
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
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Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
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Repentance follows hasty counsels.
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Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
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Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.
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Some remedies are worse than the disease.
[Disease]
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Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
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Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind.
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Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side.
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Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
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Take care that no one hates you justly.
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That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.
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That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
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That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.
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That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
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