The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.
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Publilius Syrus
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The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
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If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.
No one reaches a high position without daring.
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
We must master our good fortune or it will master us.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
He gives twice who gives promptly.
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
No man is happy unless he believes he is.
Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
We die as often as we lose a friend.
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
Prosperity makes friends adversity tries them.
Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.