Top 100 Syrus Quotes
#1. A wise man is the master of his own mind" "A fool is a slave to his" - Publilius Syrus
Gareth F. Baines
#2. Syrus wished a lot of things around Forest. Forest
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#3. To do two things at once is to do neither." - Publilius Syrus
Gary Keller
#4. He gives twice who gives quickly. credited to Publius Syrus Mimus.
Joaquin Miller
#9. The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
Publilius Syrus
#13. There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.
Publilius Syrus
#17. Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.
Publilius Syrus
#19. He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
Publilius Syrus
#24. No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus
#25. The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
Publilius Syrus
#26. Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.
Publilius Syrus
#28. They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.
Publilius Syrus
#30. You must die, but not as often as you may have wished.
Publilius Syrus
#32. You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.
Publilius Syrus
#33. To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Publilius Syrus
#34. The gladiator lays his plans after he enters the arena.
Publilius Syrus
#35. His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.
Publilius Syrus
#36. To have the universe bear one company, would be a great consolation in death.
Publilius Syrus
#38. He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.
Publilius Syrus
#40. The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
Publilius Syrus
#41. If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
Publilius Syrus
#43. An angry man is, again, angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Publilius Syrus
#44. Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
Publilius Syrus
#46. The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.
Publilius Syrus
#47. Bright faculties are a source of wisdom, not length of years.
Publilius Syrus
#53. Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.
Publilius Syrus
#56. Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
Publilius Syrus
#58. With little loan you get a friend, with big loan an enemy.
Publilius Syrus
#64. It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
Publilius Syrus
#65. There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
Publilius Syrus
#66. To be always giving, is to encourage a forcible taking when you refuse to give.
Publilius Syrus
#67. Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed
Publilius Syrus
#68. There's nothing which the lapse of time will not either extinguish or improve.
Publilius Syrus
#69. He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.
Publilius Syrus
#73. Consider the useful agreeable, even though if were not.
Publilius Syrus
#74. ALL DAYS ARE NOT SUNDAYS
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#75. That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
Publilius Syrus
#77. If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus
#81. He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
Publilius Syrus
#83. Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?
Publilius Syrus
#85. 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.
Publilius Syrus
#87. Who knows how great are the secret pangs of conscience?
Publilius Syrus
#88. That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
Publilius Syrus
#92. That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.
Publilius Syrus
#97. Bis vincit qui se vincit - he conquers twice who conquers himself
Publilius Syrus
#99. A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.
Publilius Syrus
#100. Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
Publilius Syrus
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