Publilius Syrus quotes
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“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.”
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“How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.”
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“The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.”
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“Never promise more than you can perform.”
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“It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.”
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“The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them”
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“Each day should be passed as though it were our last.”
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“Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.”
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“No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.”
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“We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.”
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“There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.”
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“Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.”
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“Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.”
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“It matters not how long you live, but how well.”
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“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.”
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“The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.”
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“A good reputation is more valuable than money.”
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“One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.”
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“No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.”
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“He who spares the bad injures the good.”
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“I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.”
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“No one reaches a high position without daring.”
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“Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.”
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“A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.”
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“Only the bold get to the top.”
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“A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.”
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“Some remedies are worse than the disease.”
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“While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity”
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“Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief”
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“You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.”
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“A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.”
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“It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.”
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“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
-- Publilius SyrusSource : "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 439, 1856.
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“The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.”
-- Publilius SyrusSource : "Maxims". No. 383,
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“In doubtful matters boldness is everything.”
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“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”
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“It is only the ignorant who despise education.”
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“God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.”
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“When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.”
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“As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.”
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“To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.”
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“He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.”
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“Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
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“Through indecision opportunity is often lost.”
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“For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.”
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“When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.”
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“Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.”
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“When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.”
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“When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.”
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“Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.”
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“It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.”
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“Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.”
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“There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.”
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“When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.”
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“A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.”
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“The future struggles that it may not become the past.”
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“We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.”
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“Friendship either finds or makes equals.”
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“Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.”
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“They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.”
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“A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.”
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“What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?”
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“Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.”
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“We may with advantage at times forget what we know.”
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“Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.”
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“Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.”
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“If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.”
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“Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.”
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“Lovers know what they want, but not what they need.”
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“An angry lover tells himself many lies.”
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“Love, like a tear, rises in the eye and falls upon the breast.”
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“When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.”
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“The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.”
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“It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.”
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“Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.”
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“Always shun whatever may make you angry.”
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“Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.”
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“An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.”
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“Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.”
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“All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.”
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“When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.”
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“That should be considered long which can be decided but once.”
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“Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.”
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“They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.”
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“There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.”
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“Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.”
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