The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin

Hard is it to correct the habit already formed.

A small loan makes a debtor; a great one, an enemy.

Age conceals the lascivious character ; age also reveals it.

Bitter for a free man is the bondage of debt.

Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours.

We are interested in others, when they are interested in us.

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

Do not find your happiness in another's sorrow.

An angry lover tells himself many lies.

A lover, like a torch, burns the more fiercely the more he agitated.