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• It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it.
  -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 282...
• When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 277
• Fortune is like glass,--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
  -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 280...
• Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 274
• His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 283
• Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 911
• Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 1060
• Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 633
• While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 185