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THE SAYINGS OF PUBLIUS SYRUS.
(FROM THE LATIN.)
1.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
2.
The evil you do to others you may expect in return.
3.
Allay the anger of your friend by kindness.
4.
To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.
5.
Receive an injury rather than do one.
6.
A trifling rumor may cause a great calamity.
7.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
8.
A hasty judgement is a first step to a recantation.
9.
Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things.
10.
To love one's wife with too much passion, is to be an adulterer.
11.
Hard is it to correct a habit already formed.
12.
A small loan makes a debtor; a great one, an enemy.
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