Publilius Syrus Quotes

• As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
• Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.
• To do two things at once is to do neither.
• The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.
• The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
• Honesta fama melior pecunia est.
• He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
• Many receive advice, few profit by it.
• While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
• Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
• Honesta turpitudo est pro causa bona.
• What is left when honor is lost?
• Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
• When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.
• Fortuna cum blanditur, captatum venit.
• Fortuna uitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.
• Fortunam citius reperias quam retineas.
• There are some remedies worse than the disease.
• Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.
• In sterculino plurimum gallus potest.
• In tranquillo esse quisque gubernator potest.
• Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
• Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.
• Practice is the best of all instructors.
• He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
• Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
• It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
• The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss.
• Never promise more than you can perform.
• No one should be judge in his own case.
• Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
• We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
• It is only the ignorant who despise education.
• Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
• No man is happy who does not think himself so.
• Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
• Money alone sets all the world in motion.
• It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
• Invitat culpam qui peccatum praeterit
• It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
• No one knows what he can do till he tries.
• Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
• Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
• Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.
• Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
• It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
• Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio.
• I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
• Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
• Familiarity breeds contempt.
• Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
• We should provide in peace what we need in war

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