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"Never promise more than you can perform."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 528.
Maxim 528.
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"A wise man never refuses anything to necessity."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 540.
Maxim 540.
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"No one should be judge in his own cause."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 545.
Maxim 545.
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"Necessity knows no law except to conquer."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 553.
Maxim 553.
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"Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 557.
Maxim 557.
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"We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 559.
Maxim 559.
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"It is only the ignorant who despise education."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 571.
Maxim 571.
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"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 580.
Maxim 580.
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"It is not every question that deserves an answer."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 581.
Maxim 581.
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"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 584.
Maxim 584.
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"Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 593.
Maxim 593.
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"You cannot put the same shoe on every foot."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 596.
Maxim 596.
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"He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 598.
Maxim 598.
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"A guilty conscience never feels secure."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 617.
Maxim 617.
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"Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 633.
Maxim 633.
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"Familiarity breeds contempt."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 640.
Maxim 640.
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"Money alone sets all the world in motion."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 656.
Maxim 656.
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"He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 673.
Maxim 673.
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"You should go to a pear-tree for pears, not to an elm."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 674.
Maxim 674.
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"It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 675.
Maxim 675.
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"We should provide in peace what we need in war."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 709.
Maxim 709.
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"Look for a tough wedge for a tough log."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 723.
Maxim 723.
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"How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!"
Publius Syrus / Maxim 725.
Maxim 725.
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"They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 759.
Maxim 759.
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"He gets through too late who goes too fast."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 767.
Maxim 767.
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"In every enterprise consider where you would come out."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 777.
Maxim 777.
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"It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 780.
Maxim 780.
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"The highest condition takes rise in the lowest."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 781.
Maxim 781.
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"It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 785.
Maxim 785.
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"No one knows what he can do till he tries."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 786.
Maxim 786.
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"The next day is never so good as the day before."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 815.
Maxim 815.
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"He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 825.
Maxim 825.
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"Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 827.
Maxim 827.
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"It matters not how long you live, but how well."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 829.
Maxim 829.
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"It is vain to look for a defence against lightning."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 835.
Maxim 835.
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"No good man ever grew rich all at once."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 837.
Maxim 837.
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"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 847.
Maxim 847.
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"It is better to learn late than never."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 864.
Maxim 864.
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"Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 865.
Maxim 865.
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"Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 866.
Maxim 866.
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"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 872.
Maxim 872.
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"Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 911.
Maxim 911.
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"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 914.
Maxim 914.
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"He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 930.
Maxim 930.
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"You need not hang up the ivy-branch over the wine that will sell."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 968.
Maxim 968.
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"It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 995.
Maxim 995.
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"Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 1042.
Maxim 1042.
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"Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 1060.
Maxim 1060.
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"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 1070.
Maxim 1070.
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"Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little."
Publius Syrus / Maxim 1072.
Maxim 1072.
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