Many receive advice, few profit by it.
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Quotes by Publilius Syrus
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A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted.
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
Necessity gives the law, but does not itself submit to it.
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
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