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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.


Publilius Syrus

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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
EPICTETUS The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.
NATHANIEL LEE People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than...
JIM MORRISON People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more ...
JIM MORRISON How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
WILL DURANT The fear of death is worse than death.
ROBERT BURTON My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
HUEY NEWTON Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human ra...
MARK TWAIN Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
OLIVER JOSEPH LODGE I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
JULIUS CAESAR It is not the certainty of death that we fear but more so the certainty of fear that death brings.
EMANOUHL As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Death, the most dreaded of all evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is ...
EPICURUS Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not ev...
EXO BOOKS Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
JOHN DRYDEN Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
POLLY TOYNBEE I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to car...
MARK HADDON I have seen death face to face and returned to the world of living beings. I have savored the fear o...
MANOJE BASU Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. GORDON LIDDY Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
G. GORDON LIDDY I desire respect more than I fear death; without respect, I’m dead already.
SCOTTIE SOMERS I need respect more than I fear death; without respect, I’m dead already.
SCOTTIE SOMERS An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
JOS Death should be more anticipated than life,because death takes one to the unknown,but life is a know...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is ...
PLATO And death is better because death is the end of fear, isnt it? -Dekka
MICHAEL GRANT Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ul...
ECKHART TOLLE —and I say you still haven't answered my question, Father Bleu."
"Haven't I, dear lady? I tho...
JOHN JAKES The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB There is nothing in our biology that should prompt the fear of death, the longing for meaning, or th...
JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART There is nothing in our biology that should prompt the fear of death, the longing for meaning, or th...
JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formi...
MICHAEL CHABON Fear of Death only Brings Fear of Death"
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PETRA HERMANS Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity.
Learn to surrender, to exist at Infinity while...
ADI DA SAMRAJ An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence...We discover the relationship which is the basis...
MEDARD BOSS Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends...
DEAN INGE The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
ECKHART TOLLE Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain
ANTHONY ROBBINS I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes bey...
JULIAN BARNES We all fear, not for death but where we will be after death.
KOWSALAPATHY The less bravely we live the more stifling becomes our fear of death.
GLENN HAYBITTLE Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
ARTHUR KOESTLER Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion
ARTHUR KOESTLER Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.
HERMAN E. DALY To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows...
SOCRATES I don't fear death. I have a lot more to do,
MELISSA ETHERIDGE Forth, and fear no darkness! Arise! Arise, Riders of Theoden! Spears shall be shaken,swords shall be...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN To fear death is to misunderstand life.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
MARK TWAIN By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death...
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no ...
THOMAS PAINE They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome th...
G. GORDON LIDDY For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
EPICTETUS Set honor in one eye and death i' the other And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear a...
HERMANN HESSE Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
MOLI Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
MOLIERE It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J.K. ROWLING It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. ROWLING It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this...
ASHIM SHANKER Death is quick. Fear is forever.
RAIN BOJANGLES Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is somet...
ISABEL ALLENDE There is life beyond death...never fear what can be escaped.
J.K. ROWLING Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which ...
EPICURUS Death, O Mullah - death will come, so live in the Fear of God the Creator.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I wil...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What do we say to the Lord of Death?'

'Not today.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life's Irony;Death has come to make life temporal,but death itself is a permanent zone.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planne...
PASCAL MERCIER Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
FRANCES MOORE LAPPE You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the ma...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire ...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
JOHN PIPER Death is more meaningful than just being dead.
MUNIA KHAN When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results...
TOM ROBBINS Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own...
BRYANT H. MCGILL My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated
TUPAC SHAKUR Death frees from the fear of dying
PAULO COELHO No more sad than to regret @ Death.
RICARDO ALONSO Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be...
MYLES MUNROE Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
NATALIE BABBITT Death is certain. Nobody can escape it. Then why fear death? Live till you die!
RVM It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the trues...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY people who believe in a life after death are just scarred of death itself
OLIVERJOHNGAUNT In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical deat...
R. ALAN WOODS If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are m...
UNKNOWN The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.
KHALIL GIBRAN Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to e...
JOHN STRACHAN Not afraid to die , but not the fear of death
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SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) If you can walk, you can run.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) No one knows what he can do till he tries.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) A cock has great influence on this own dunghill.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehic...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are suffering. [Lat., Ingratus unus miseris omnibus n...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) It is not every question that deserves an answer.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Union gives strength to the humble. [Lat., Auxilia humilia firma consensus facit.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) There are some remedies worse than the disease.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) The next day is never so good as the day before.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [Lat., Tam deest avaro quod h...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) It is better to have a little than nothing.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) To do two things at once is to do neither.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) He gets through too late who goes too fast.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) We may with advantage forget what we know.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum exped...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time. [Lat., Inprobe Neptunum accusat, qu...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) The losing side is full of suspicion. [Lat., Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) The remedy for wrongs is to forget them. [Lat., Injuriarum remedium est oblivio.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. [Lat., Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordi...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. [Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laud...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Some remedies are worse than the disease itself. [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) A good reputation is more valuable than money.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. [Lat., Aliena nobis,...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS They make a desert and they call it peace.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Common report is not always wrong.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Some remedies are worse than the disease itself. [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind. [Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum ...
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Repentance follows hasty counsels. [Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS No one should be judge in his own cause.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS A rolling stone gathers no moss.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Familiarity breeds contempt.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS We die as often as we lose a friend.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS A rolling stone can gather no moss.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS No one reaches a high position without daring.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Practice is the best of all instructors.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Some remedies are worse than the disease.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS There are some remedies worse than the disease.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Opportunity is lost by deliberation.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS No one knows what he can do till he tries.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The next day is never so good as the day before.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS There is no medicine to cure hatred.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Take care that no one hates you justly.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS To do two things at once is to do neither.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS What valor cannot win, flattery may.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS An angry father is most cruel toward himself.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS He who spares the bad injures the good.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS It is not every question that deserves an answer.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The empire of custom is most mighty.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS In quarreling the truth is always lost
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Debt is the slavery of the free.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Confidence is the bond of friendship.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Every vice has its excuse ready.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Practice is the best of all instructors
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Debt is the slavery of the free
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears
PUBLILIUS SYRUS A friendship that can end never really began
PUBLILIUS SYRUS He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Many receive advice, few profit by it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS What is left when honor is lost?
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS A good reputation is more valuable than money.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS No one knows what he can do until he tries.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Where there is unity there is always victory.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
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