Page:The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, A Roman Slave.djvu/47

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407.

The judge is condemned, when the criminal is acquitted.

408.

The right is ever beyond the reach of the wrong.

409.

The magistrate should hear both right and wrong side.

410.

The gods give man one good, as an offset to two ills.

411.

Labor is the best of condiments for youth's food.

412.

When injured, our enemy's anguish assuages our own.

413.

The error repeated is a fault.

414.

Libertinage and moral worth never go together.

415.

When you bestow favors on a multitude, many will be thrown away for a single one that goes to the right place.

416.

When vice is approved, it will soon become intolerable.

417.

Unless a man aid to his glory, he loses what he has.

418.

The guilty dread the law, the innocent fear fortune.

419.

Anger is apt to forget the existence of law.

420.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

421.

It is a universal law which ordains birth and death.