Publilius Syrus

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Friendship either finds or makes equals.
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Collection: Friendship
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That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
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Collection: Enemy
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It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
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Collection: Favors
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Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.
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Collection: Fame
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Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.
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Collection: Men
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Friendship is stronger than kindred.
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Collection: Friendship
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The power of habit is very strong.
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Collection: Strong
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Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.
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Collection: Safety
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He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.
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Collection: Speech
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There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.
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Collection: Running
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The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.
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Collection: Friendship
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That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
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Collection: Long
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To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere
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Collection: Acceptance
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The further the fall, the greater the hurt.
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Collection: Hurt
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Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.
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Collection: Yield
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Bad nature never lacks an instructor.
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Collection: Instructors
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Every madman considers everyone else a madman.
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Collection: Madmen
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It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.
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Collection: Lightning
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God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
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Collection: Change
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Past happiness augments present wretchedness.
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Collection: Happiness
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Every vice has its excuse ready.
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Collection: Inspirational
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Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.
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Collection: Mad
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The best remedy for an injury is to forget it.
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Collection: Forget
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If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
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Collection: Solitude
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Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.
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Collection: Corn
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The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.
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Collection: Eye
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The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
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Collection: Wise
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There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
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Collection: Pride
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What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.
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Collection: Firsts
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A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
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Collection: Enemy
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Love, like a tear, rises in the eye and falls upon the breast.
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Collection: Love
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We die as often as we lose a friend.
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Collection: Friendship
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A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.
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Collection: Opportunity
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An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.
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Collection: Doctors
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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
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Collection: Giving
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A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
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Collection: Dignity
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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
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Collection: Funny
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That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.
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Collection: Loss
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Wine has drowned more than the sea.
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Collection: Wine
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It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
- Publilius Syrus
Collection: Please
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Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
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Collection: Criminal Mind
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The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.
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Collection: Broken
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We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war.
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Collection: War
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When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.
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Collection: Knowing
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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
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Collection: Advice
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It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.
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Collection: Accepting
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Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
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Collection: Life Is Short
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What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!
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Collection: Support
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Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.
- Publilius Syrus
Collection: Rumor