John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Publius Syrus. (42 B.C.) (continued)
8690 You need not hang up the ivy-branch over the wine that will sell. 1
Maxim 968.
8691 It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. 2
Maxim 995.
8692 Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one. 3
Maxim 1042.
8693 Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency.
Maxim 1060.
8694 I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. 4
Maxim 1070.
8695 Keep the golden mean 5 between saying too much and too little.
Maxim 1072.
8696 Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
Maxim 1073.
Seneca. (c. 3 B.C.A.D.65)
8697 Not lost, but gone before. 6
Epistolæ. 63, 16.
8698 Whom they have injured they also hate. 7
De Ira. ii. 33.
8699 Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. 8
De Providentia. 5, 9.
8700 There is no great genius without a tincture of madness. 9
De Tranquillitate Animi. 17.
8701 Do you seek Alcides equal? None is, except himself. 10
Hercules Furens. i. 1, 84.
Note 1. See Shakespeare, As You Like It, Quotation 75 . [back ]Note 2. See Maxim 144 . [back ]Note 3. See Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Quotation 2 . [back ]Note 4. Simonides said that he never repented that he held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.Plutarch : Rules for the Preservation of Health. [back ]Note 5. See Cowper, Quotation 112 . [back ]Note 6. See Rogers, Quotation 8 . [back ]Note 7. See Dryden, Quotation 83 . [back ]Note 8. See Beaumont and Fletcher, Quotation 8 . [back ]Note 9. See Dryden, Quotation 5 . [back ]Note 10. See Theobald, Quotation 1 . [back ]