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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Publius Syrus. (42 B.C.) (continued)
 
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    The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. 1
          Maxim 511.
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    A rolling stone gathers no moss. 2
          Maxim 524.
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    Never promise more than you can perform.
          Maxim 528.
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    A wise man never refuses anything to necessity. 3
          Maxim 540.
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    No one should be judge in his own cause. 4
          Maxim 545.
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    Necessity knows no law except to conquer. 5
          Maxim 553.
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    Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. 6
          Maxim 557.
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    We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
          Maxim 559.
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    It is only the ignorant who despise education.
          Maxim 571.
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    Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. 7
          Maxim 580.
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    It is not every question that deserves an answer.
          Maxim 581.
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    No man is happy who does not think himself so. 8
          Maxim 584.
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    Never thrust your own sickle into another’s corn. 9
          Maxim 593.
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    You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
          Maxim 596.
 
Note 1.
See Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Quotation 22. [back]
Note 2.
See Heywood, Quotation 61. [back]
Note 3.
Yet do I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.—Euripides: Hercules Furens, line 281. [back]
Note 4.
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.—Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, chap. iv. 1. [back]
Note 5.
See Milton, Quotation 106. [back]
Note 6.
See Chaucer, Quotation 24. [back]
Note 7.
When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.—Plutarch: Of the Training of Children. [back]
Note 8.
No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.—Samuel Johnson: The Rambler, p. 150. [back]
Note 9.
Did thrust as now in others’ corn his sickle.—Du Bartas: Divine Weekes and Workes, part ii. Second Weeke.

Not presuming to put my sickle in another man’s corn.—Nicholas Yonge: Musica Transalpini. Epistle Dedicatory. 1588. [back]