Publilius Syrus (fl. 85–43 BC) was a Latin writer, best known for his sententiae. He was a Roman Syrian from Antioch who was brought as a slave to Roman Italy. Syrus was brought to Rome on the same ship that brought a certain Manilius Antiochus, astronomer, and Staberius Eros the...
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.