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] |