Publilius Syrus
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Publilius Syrus
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Quotations
Publilius Syrus, a Latin writer of mimes, flourished in the 1st century BC. He was a native of Assyria ( Northern Iraq) and Assyrian by race, he was brought as a slave to Italy, but by his wit and talent he won the favour of his master, who freed and educated him.
Sentences
Sententiae, a collection of maxims in verse form, given alphabetically (in Latin).- As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
- Maxim 1
- Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.
- Translation: He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
- Maxim 6
- To do two things at once is to do neither.
- Maxim 7
- The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.
- Maxim 24
- The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
- Maxim 38
- Honesta fama melior pecunia est.
- Translation: A good reputation is more valuable than money.
- Maxim 108
- He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
- Maxim 139
- Many receive advice, few profit by it.
- Maxim 149
- While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
- Maxim 185
- Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
- Maxim 191
- Honesta turpitudo est pro causa bona.
- Translation: For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
- Maxim 244
- What is left when honor is lost?
- Maxim 265
- Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
- Maxim 274
- When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.
- Maxim 275
- Fortuna cum blanditur, captatum venit.
- Translation: When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
- Maxim 277
- Fortuna uitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.
- Fortune is like glass-the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
- Maxim 280
- Fortunam citius reperias quam retineas.
- It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.
- Maxim 282
- There are some remedies worse than the disease.
- Maxim 301
- Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.
- Maxim 319
- In sterculino plurimum gallus potest.
- A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
- Maxim 357
- In tranquillo esse quisque gubernator potest.
- Translation: Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Maxim 358
- Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
- Maxim 402
- Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.
- Translation: The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.
- Maxim 407
- Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review magazine as its motto.
- Practice is the best of all instructors.
- Maxim 439
- He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
- Maxim 459
- Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
- Maxim 467
- It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
- Maxim 469
- The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
- Maxim 511
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- Maxim 524
- Never promise more than you can perform.
- Maxim 528
- No one should be judge in his own case.
- Maxim 545
- Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
- Maxim 557
- We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
- Maxim 559
- It is only the ignorant who despise education.
- Maxim 571
- Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
- Maxim 580
- No man is happy who does not think himself so.
- Maxim 584
- Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
- Maxim 633
- Money alone sets all the world in motion.
- Maxim 656
- It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
- Maxim 675
- Invitat culpam qui peccatum praeterit
- Translation: Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.
- Maxim 750
- It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
- Maxim 780
- No one knows what he can do till he tries.
- Maxim 786
- Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
- Maxim 847
- Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
- Maxim 865
- Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
- Maxim 872
- Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.
- Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.
- Maxim 911. One of the most famous renditions of the ancient Greek proverb (which is anonymous and dates to the 5th century BCE or earlier).
- The provenance of the proverb and its English versions is at Wikipedia's Euripides page, under the heading "Misattributed."
- Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
- Translation: Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
- Maxim 914
- It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
- Maxim 995
- Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio.
- Translation: Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.
- Maxim 1060
- I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
- Maxim 1070
- Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
- Maxim 1073
Attributed
- Familiarity breeds contempt.
- Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
- Attributed by By Advice of Counsel, Arthur Train
- We should provide in peace what we need in war
- Debt is the slavery of the free.
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