54 Publilius Syrus Quotes

Publilius Syrus gives plain-spoken advice on ethics and fortune.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
#1
Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.
#2
To do two things at once is to do neither.
#3
The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.
#4
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
#5
Honesta fama melior pecunia est.
#6
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
#7
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
#8
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
#9
Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
#10
Honesta turpitudo est pro causa bona.
#11
What is left when honor is lost?
#12
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
#13
When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.
#14
Fortuna cum blanditur, captatum venit.
#15
Fortuna uitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.
#16
Fortunam citius reperias quam retineas.
#17
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
#18
Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.
#19
In sterculino plurimum gallus potest.
#20
In tranquillo esse quisque gubernator potest.
#21
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
#22
Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.
#23
Practice is the best of all instructors.
#24
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
#25
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
#26
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
#27
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
#28
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
#29
Never promise more than you can perform.
#30
No one should be judge in his own case.
#31
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
#32
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
#33
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
#34
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
#35
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
#36
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
#37
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
#38
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
#39
Invitat culpam qui peccatum praeterit
#40
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
#41
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
#42
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
#43
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
#44
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
#45
Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.
#46
Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
#47
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
#48
Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio.
#49
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
#50
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
#51
Familiarity breeds contempt.
#52
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
#53
We should provide in peace what we need in war
#54

Publilius Syrus quotes