Syrus

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
– Syrus

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
– Syrus

No one knows what he can do till he tries.
– Syrus

A rolling stone gathers no moss.
– Syrus

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
– Syrus

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
– Syrus

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
– Syrus

It is better to learn late than never.
– Syrus

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are
the men of supreme self-control.
– Syrus

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
– Syrus

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
– Syrus

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
– Syrus

No man is happy unless he believes he is.
– Syrus

What is left when honor is lost?
– Syrus

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
– Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
– Syrus

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
– Syrus

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
– Syrus

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
– Syrus

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
– Syrus

Fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
– Syrus

Take care that no one hates you justly.
– Syrus

Love’s wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.
– Syrus

Debt is the slavery of the free.
– Syrus

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
– Syrus

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
– Syrus

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
– Syrus

A good reputation is more valuable than money.
– Syrus

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.
– Syrus

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
– Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
– Syrus

Never promise more than you can perform.
– Syrus

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
– Syrus

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
– Syrus

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.
– Syrus

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
– Syrus

Never find your delight in another’s misfortune.
– Syrus

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
– Syrus

Speech is a mirror of the soul: As a man speaks, so is he.
– Syrus

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
– Syrus

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
– Syrus

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
– Syrus

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
– Syrus

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
– Syrus

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
– Syrus

We die as often as we lose a friend.
– Syrus

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
– Syrus

Money alone sets all the world in motion.
– Syrus

It is only the ignorant who despise education.
– Syrus

Practice is the best of all instructors.
– Syrus

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
– Syrus

Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.
– Syrus

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
– Syrus

Never thrust your own sickle into another’s corn.
– Syrus

The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.
– Syrus

To do two things at once is to do neither.
– Syrus