the sayings of publius syrus.
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840.
The greater our fortune, the more likely to fail us.
841.
Anger stops at nothing.
842.
Accused innocence fears fate, not the witnesses.
843.
It is not a hard lot to be obliged to return to the state whence we came.
844.
I should not please to be king, if I must therefore be pleased to be cruel.
845.
The hour of triumph loves no co-partnership.
846.
You can obey a request much better than a command.
847.
Every thing is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.[1]
848.
Give your friend cause to blush; and you will be likely to lose him.
849.
Repeated pardons encourage offenses.
850.
To prefer a request smacks of servility to a noble spirit.
851.
You would not sin so often if you knew some things of which you are ignorant.
- ↑ This saying is equivalent to the maxim current in our day: a thing is worth what it will fetch. There can be no millenium {{{1}}} for civilized man till this maxim has ceased to be true, and a thing becomes worth the labor it cost to produce it.
