Publilius Syrus Quotes

#1. A wise man is the master of his own mind" "A fool is a slave to his" - Publilius Syrus

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#2. To do two things at once is to do neither." - Publilius Syrus

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#3. Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

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#4. A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

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#5. Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

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#6. Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

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#7. The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

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#8. The further the fall, the greater the hurt.

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#9. A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.

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#10. A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

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#11. There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.

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#12. The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

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#13. Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

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#14. To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

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#15. Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

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#16. Any land is your country where you can live happy.

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#17. He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

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#18. A wise man rules his passions, fool obeys them.

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#19. Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side.

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#20. The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

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#21. No man is happy unless he believes he is.

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#22. No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

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#23. The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

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#24. Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.

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#25. It's a bad plan that can't be changed.

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#26. They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

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#27. The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

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#28. You must die, but not as often as you may have wished.

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#29. Wine has drowned more than the sea.

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#30. You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

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#31. To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

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#32. The gladiator lays his plans after he enters the arena.

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#33. His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.

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#34. To have the universe bear one company, would be a great consolation in death.

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#35. Yesterday should be the teacher of today.

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#36. He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.

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#37. Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.

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#38. The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

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#39. If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

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#40. The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

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#41. An angry man is, again, angry with himself when he returns to reason.

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#42. Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

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#43. You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

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#44. The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

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#45. Bright faculties are a source of wisdom, not length of years.

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#46. To die at the command of another is to die twice.

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#47. Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

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#48. Time, not the Will, can put an end to love.

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#49. No one should be judge in his own case.

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#50. The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

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#51. Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

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#52. The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

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#53. Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

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#54. Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

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#55. Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

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#56. With little loan you get a friend, with big loan an enemy.

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#57. The hope of reward is the solace of labor.

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#58. There is no medicine to cure hatred.

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#59. Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.

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#60. A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.

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#61. Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

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#62. It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

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#63. There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

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#64. To be always giving, is to encourage a forcible taking when you refuse to give.

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#65. Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

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#66. There's nothing which the lapse of time will not either extinguish or improve.

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#67. He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.

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#68. Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

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#69. Excessive severity misses its own aim.

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#70. No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

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#71. Consider the useful agreeable, even though if were not.

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#72. That should be considered long which can be decided but once.

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#73. The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

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#74. If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

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#75. It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

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#76. Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely

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#77. Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.

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#78. He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

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#79. Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

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#80. Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

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#81. All powerful is the rule of fashion.

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#82. The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

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#83. No good man ever became suddenly rich.

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#84. Who knows how great are the secret pangs of conscience?

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#85. That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

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#86. Many receive advice, few profit by it.

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#87. The power of habit is very strong.

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#88. It is hard to touch what brings pain by mere contact.

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#89. That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

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#90. It is not every question that deserves an answer.

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#91. Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

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#92. The losing side is full of suspicion.

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#93. Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

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#94. Bis vincit qui se vincit - he conquers twice who conquers himself

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#95. An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.

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#96. A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.

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#97. Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

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#98. Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

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#99. Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

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#100. He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

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