Publilius Syrus Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Publilius Syrus Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
Friendship ever profits, but love ever injures.
A god can hardly disturb a man truly happy.
Fear cannot restrain, when pleasure invites.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others
No man is happy unless he believes he is.
When the world hates you, see that it has no good reason therefor.
Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.
Friendship either finds or makes equals.
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
The best remedy for an injury is to forget it.
Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
The wretched reflect either too much or too little.
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.
No one can escape death or love.
It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
A wise man rules his passions, fool obeys them.
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.
The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.
Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.
There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.
He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.
Bad nature never lacks an instructor.
We find something of the favour sought in a graceful refusal.
If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.
In excess altercation, truth is lost.
The fear of death is more to be feared, than death itself.
It is better to have a little than nothing.
That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.
It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
He who violates another's honor loses his own.
He who spares the bad injures the good.
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
Whom fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Friendship is stronger than kindred.
It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things.
It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.
Any land is your country where you can live happy.
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Excessive severity misses its own aim.
He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
In love, anger is always false.
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.
It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.
It is hard to recover the lost opportunity.
Frugality is misery in disguise.
Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.
Consider the useful agreeable, even though if were not.
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.
He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.
They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
It matters not how long you live, but how well.
Seek to please many, and you seek a failure.
No one reaches a high position without daring.
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
The sons of the blacksmith are not frightened at sparks.
Where there is unity, there is always victory
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Time, not the Will, can put an end to love.
There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.
Never promise more than you can perform.
It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]
Wine has drowned more than the sea.
The hope of reward is the solace of labor.
