John Bartlett (1820–1905). 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] |