“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
Maxim 1070
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“Don't turn back when you are just at the goal.”
Maxim 580
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“Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.”
Maxim 865
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“Never promise more than you can perform.”
Maxim 528
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“While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.”
Maxim 185
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Publilio Siro Quotes about money
“Be your money's master, not its slave.”
Maxim 657
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“When reason rules, money is a blessing.”
Maxim 50
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“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”
Honesta fama melior pecunia est.
Maxim 108
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“Money alone sets all the world in motion.”
Maxim 656
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Publilio Siro Quotes about forgetting
“To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.”
Maxim 383
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“A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.”
Maxim 441
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“We may with advantage at times forget what we know.”
Maxim 234
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“It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.”
Maxim 233
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Publilio Siro: Trending quotes
“Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.”
Maxim 170
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“For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.”
Honesta turpitudo est pro causa bona.
Maxim 207
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“Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.”
Maxim 120
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Publilio Siro Quotes
“No tears are shed, when an enemy dies.”
Maxim 376
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“Necessity gives the law without itself acknowledging one.”
Necessitas dat legem non ipsa accipit.
Maxim 444
Variant translation: Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Necessitas non habet legem, "Necessity has no law", is apparently of medieval origin. See Necessity for further variants.
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“Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.”
Maxim 232
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“What is left when honor is lost?”
Maxim 265
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“The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.”
Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.
Maxim 407
Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review magazine as its motto.
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“For him who loves labor, there is always something to do.”
Maxim 219
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“Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.”
Maxim 319
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“We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”
Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest.
Maxim 559 [Mimi et aliorum sententiae 677]
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“The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.”
Maxim 941
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“Many receive advice, few profit by it.”
Maxim 149
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“Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.”
Maxim 274
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“He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.”
Maxim 629
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“Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.”
Maxim 236
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Variant: Even when there is no law, there is conscience.
“No one should be judge in his own cause.”
Maxim 545
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“Even a single hair casts its shadow.”
Maxim 228 http://books.google.com/books?id=_QQSAAAAIAAJ&q="even+a+single+hair+casts+its+shadow"&pg=PA28#v=onepage
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“They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.”
Maxim 790
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“Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.
Maxim 280
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“The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.”
Maxim 24
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“We are interested in others, when they are interested in us.”
Maxim 16
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“Every one excels in something in which another fails.”
Maxim 17
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“He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.”
Maxim 77
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“It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.”
Fortunam citius reperias quam retineas.
Maxim 282
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“Penitence follows hasty decisions.”
Velox consilium sequitur paenitentia.
Maxim 961
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“His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.”
Maxim 283
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“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
Maxim 914
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“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
Misattributed as Maxim 7, p. 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=GKFGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&dq=%22To+do+two+things+at+once+is+to+do+neither.%22
Variant of:
Duos qui sequitur lepores neutrum capit
Who chases two rabbits catches neither.
A Dictionary of Quotations in most frequent Use, David Evans Macdonnel, 1797, quoted in The Monthly Review, 1798, p. 467 https://books.google.com/books?id=KYhPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA467&dq=%22duos+qui+sequitur+lepores+neutrum+capit%22
Apparently of medieval or modern origin, not found in antiquity.
Misattributed
“To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.”
Maxim 113
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“An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.”
Maxim 143
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“He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.”
Maxim 459
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“He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.”
Maxim 97
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“Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.”
Maxim 633
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“A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
Saxum volutum non obducitur musco
Maxim 524
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“As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.”
Maxim 1
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“Solitude is the mother of anxieties.”
Maxim 222
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“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Maxim 584
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“When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.”
Maxim 275
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“A wise man rules his passions, a fool obeys them.”
Maxim 49
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“Tension weakens the bow; the want of it, the mind.”
Maxim 59
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“It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.”
Maxim 780
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“A beautiful face is a silent commendation.”
Formonsa facies muta commendatio est.
Maxim 283
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“There are some remedies worse than the disease.”
Maxim 301
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“Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.”
Maxim 847
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“Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.”
Invitat culpam qui peccatum praeterit
Maxim 750
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“Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.”
Maxim 124
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“A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.”
Maxin 267
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“Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.”
Maxim 557
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“Confidence is the only bond of friendship.”
Maxim 34
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“Never find your delight in another's misfortune.”
Maxim 467
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“It is only the ignorant who despise education.”
Maxim 571
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