Publilius Syrus Wise Quotations

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be it's slave.

When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.

A god could hardly love and be wise.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

Wise man also fears a weak enemy.

It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.