“There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.”
Maxim 138
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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“Never promise more than you can perform.”
Maxim 528
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“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
Maxim 439
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“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.”
Maxim 388
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“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”
Maxim 401
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“By doing nothing men learn to do ill.”
Maxim 318
Compare Ecclesiasticus 33:27 (KJV): "idleness teacheth much evil".
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“If your parent is just, revere him; if not, bear with him.”
Ames parentem, si aequus est, si aliter, feras.
Maxim 27
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“We should provide in peace what we need in war.”
Maxim 709
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“In sterculino plurimum gallus potest.”
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
Maxim 357
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“Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.”
The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.
Maxim 407
Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review magazine as its motto.
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“Even when there is no law, there is conscience.”
Maxim 237
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