Publilius Syrus Quotes
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A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Moral Sayings. 
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More Publilius Syrus Quotes
To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.
Publilius Syrus— Sentences, Maxim 383
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 557. (Sentences)
The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 24. (Sentences)
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 35. (Sentences)
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 38. (Sentences)
What is left when honor is lost?
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 265. (Sentences)
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 274. (Sentences)
When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 275. (Sentences)
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 402. (Sentences)
Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.
Publilius Syrus— Translation: The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.
— Maxim 407
— Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review magazine as its motto.
Never promise more than you can perform.
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 528. (Sentences)
No one should be judge in his own case.
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 545. (Sentences)
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 675. (Sentences)
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 715. (Sentences)
Invitat culpam qui peccatum praeterit
Publilius Syrus— Translation: Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.
— Maxim 750.
Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
Publilius Syrus— Translation: Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
— Maxim 914.
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as what it has not.
Publilius Syrus— Maxim 927. (Sentences)
Nemo timendo ad summum pervenit locum.
Publilius Syrus— No one reaches a high position without daring.
— Syrus, Maxims.
Heu, quam difficilis gloriæ custodia est.
Publilius Syrus— Syrus, Maxims
Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet.
Publilius Syrus— The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not.
— Syrus, Maxims.
Caret periculo qui etiam tutus cavet.
Publilius Syrus— He is safe from danger who is on his guard even when safe.
— Syrus, Maxims.
Nemo timendo ad summum pervenit locum.
Publilius Syrus— No one reaches a high position without daring.
— Syrus, Maxims.
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
Publilius Syrus— Syrus, Maxims, 596. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio.
Publilius Syrus— Translation: Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.
— Publius Syrus, Sententiae (c. 43 B.C.), Maxim 1060.
Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post pœniteat.
Publilius Syrus— Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
— Syrus, Maxims.
Velox consilium sequitur pœnitentia.
Publilius Syrus— Repentance follows hasty counsels.
— Syrus, Maxims.
Casta ad virum matrona parendo imperat.
Publilius Syrus— A virtuous wife when she obeys her husband obtains the command over him.
— Syrus, Maxims.
Discipulus est priori posterior dies.
Publilius Syrus— Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
— Syrus, Maxims.
Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet.
Publilius Syrus— One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering.
— Syrus, Maxims.
