Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

PUBLILIUS SYRUS70 It's silly to want vengeance on a neighbour by firingthe house.Fortune makes a fool of him whom she would ruin."Hope eases the beggar, wealth the miser, death thewretched.A judge who crushes the guiltless is self-condemned.Villainy compels injury to be done to itself.75 Happy enough he who can die when he willsPraise ever follows when toil has made the way.To help the guilty isto share his crime.Suspicion doth breed rivals for herself.What can show anger must ever be dreaded.80 Discord mid citizens is the foeman's chance.Injury may well be done a man for safety's sake.'Tis folly to upbraid the favourite of heaven.'Tis high enough interest for a benefit to remember it.'Tis too late in perils to search for advice.85 He who wishes safety for the common property isthe guardian of his own.It i-^enough to beat a foe, too much to ruin him.The suspicious man condemns the good faith of all." A more familiar form of this idea is quern luppiter viillperdere dementat prius.105