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

Page 900

Publius Syrus. (42 B.C.) (continued)

8690

You need not hang up the ivy-branch over the wine that will sell. 1

Maxim 968.

8691

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. 2

Maxim 995.

8692

Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one. 3

Maxim 1042.

8693

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency.

Maxim 1060.

8694

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. 4

Maxim 1070.

8695

Keep the golden mean 5 between saying too much and too little.

Maxim 1072.

8696

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Maxim 1073.

Seneca. (c. 3 B.C.–A.D.65)

8697

Not lost, but gone before. 6

Epistolæ. 63, 16.

8698

Whom they have injured they also hate. 7

De Ira. ii. 33.

8699

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. 8

De Providentia. 5, 9.

8700

There is no great genius without a tincture of madness. 9

De Tranquillitate Animi. 17.

8701

Do you seek Alcides’ equal? None is, except himself. 10

Hercules Furens. i. 1, 84.

Note 1.
See Shakespeare, As You Like It, Quotation 75. [back]

Note 2.
See Maxim 144. [back]

Note 3.
See Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Quotation 2. [back]

Note 4.
Simonides said “that he never repented that he held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.”—Plutarch: Rules for the Preservation of Health. [back]

Note 5.
See Cowper, Quotation 112. [back]

Note 6.
See Rogers, Quotation 8. [back]

Note 7.
See Dryden, Quotation 83. [back]

Note 8.
See Beaumont and Fletcher, Quotation 8. [back]

Note 9.
See Dryden, Quotation 5. [back]

Note 10.
See Theobald, Quotation 1. [back]

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