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