Top 380 Publilius Syrus Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.”

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102. “Other people’s things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent.”

— Publilius Syrus

103. “Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.”

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104. “He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.”

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105. “Love, like a tear, rises in the eye and falls upon the breast.”

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106. “He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.”

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107. “Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.”

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108. “Pain forces even the innocent to lie.”

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109. “He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.”

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110. “He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.”

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111. “A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.”

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112. “A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.”

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113. “Even one hair has a shadow.”

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114. “A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.”

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115. “Frugality is misery in disguise.”

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116. “An angry father is most cruel towards himself.”

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117. “The evil you do to others you may expect in return.”

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118. “Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.”

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119. “Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.”

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120. “One man’s wickedness may easily become all men’s curse.”

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121. “No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.”

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122. “You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.”

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123. “To-day is the pupil of yesterday.”

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124. “The gladiator lays his plans after he enters the arena.”

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125. “He gets through too late who goes too fast.”

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126. “Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”

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127. “There is but a step between a proud man’s glory and his disgrace.”

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128. “When reason rules, money is a blessing.”

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129. “Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.”

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130. “No tears are shed when an enemy dies.”

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131. “Each day should be passed as though it were our last.”

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132. “Every madman considers everyone else a madman.”

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133. “Bad nature never lacks an instructor.”

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134. “He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.”

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135. “The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.”

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136. “An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.”

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137. “Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.”

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138. “It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.”

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139. “The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.”

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140. “With little loan you get a friend, with big loan an enemy.”

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141. “Past happiness augments present wretchedness.”

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142. “If you would live innocently, seek solitude.”

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143. “Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.”

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144. “Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.”

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145. “Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.”

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146. “Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.”

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147. “If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.”

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148. “It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”

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149. “He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another’s mishap.”

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150. “When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.”

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