John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Publius Syrus. (42 B.C.) (continued) |
| 8623 |
| It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it. |
| Maxim 282. |
| 8624 |
| His own character is the arbiter of every one’s fortune. 1 |
| Maxim 283. |
| 8625 |
| There are some remedies worse than the disease. 2 |
| Maxim 301. |
| 8626 |
| Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. 3 |
| Maxim 305. |
| 8627 |
| Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised. 4 |
| Maxim 319. |
| 8628 |
| It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another. |
| Maxim 322. |
| 8629 |
| When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all. |
| Maxim 338. |
| 8630 |
| A cock has great influence on his own dunghill. 5 |
| Maxim 357. |
| 8631 |
| Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm. 6 |
| Maxim 358. |
| 8632 |
| No tears are shed when an enemy dies. |
| Maxim 376. |
| 8633 |
| The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. |
| Maxim 388. |
| 8634 |
| Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. |
| Maxim 401. |
| 8635 |
| No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. 7 |
| Maxim 406. |
| 8636 |
| The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted. 8 |
| Maxim 407. |
| 8637 |
| Practice is the best of all instructors. 9 |
| Maxim 439. |
| 8638 |
| He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion. |
| Maxim 459. |
| 8639 |
| One man’s wickedness may easily become all men’s curse. |
| Maxim 463. |
| 8640 |
| Never find your delight in another’s misfortune. |
| Maxim 467. |
| 8641 |
| It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. |
| Maxim 469. |
| 8642 |
| It is better to have a little than nothing. |
| Maxim 484. |
| 8643 |
| It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies. |
| Maxim 499. |
| Note 1. See Bacon, Quotation 27. [back] |
| Note 2. See Bacon, Quotation 16. Marius said, “I see the cure is not worth the pain.”—Plutarch: Life of Caius Marius. [back] |
| Note 3. Habit is second nature.—Montaigne: Essays, book iii. chap. x. [back] |
| Note 4. He that hath many irons in the fire, some of them will cool.—Hazlitt: English Proverbs. [back] |
| Note 5. See Heywood, Quotation 60. [back] |
| Note 6. The sea being smooth, How many shallow bauble boats dare sail Upon her patient breast. William Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, act i. sc. 3. [back] |
| Note 7. See Cowper, Quotation 63. [back] |
| Note 8. Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur,—the motto adopted for the “Edinburgh Review.” [back] |
| Note 9. Practice makes perfect.—Proverb. [back] |