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20         THE SAYINGS OF PUBLIUS SYRUS. Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

Mercy shown [to the wretched] may become a bulwark of defense.

Happy is the voyage that brings the good together.

A good reputation, even in darkness, keeps on shining.

A death that ends the [incurable] ills of life, is a blessing.

Money is worth something when good sense disburses it.

One man's happy hour is another's bitter time of trial.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

It is a happy disgrace that saves from a greater peril.

The slothful enjoyment of it, is the worst part of prosperity.

Even in death, a good man would not deceive.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

The more skillfully the language of goodness is assumed, the greater the depravity.

A good man's severity is next neighbor to justice.