Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

PPUBLILIUS SYRUSThere's no gain so safe as saving what you've got.You never can tell what to Mish for or what to avoidsuch is the day's jest.A risk is never mastered save by risk.There's no luck socomplaint about it.good but you could make someNowhere do we men die better than where we havelived to our liking.The miser never lacks a reason for saying "no.""When a rascal does right, he is concealing hischaracter.Never ugly isthe scar which bravery begets.Where there has been firelack of smoke.for long, there's never a5 Very big things must have very small beginnings.He who controls the unwilling hurts rather thancorrects.By excessive yielding, follyfoolishstill.sometimes grows moreGreed likes nothing better than what is not allowed." This is the last of the verses in 2, the rest of whosesententiae are in prose.71