Top 380 Publilius Syrus Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Yesterday should be the teacher of today.”

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252. “Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.”

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253. “A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.”

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254. “The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.”

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255. “Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.”

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256. “The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.”

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257. “Wise man also fears a weak enemy.”

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258. “What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?”

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259. “There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.”

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260. “Confidence is the only bond of friendship.”

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261. “That should be considered long which can be decided but once.”

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262. “What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!”

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263. “The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.”

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264. “We die as often as we lose a friend.”

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265. “Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.”

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266. “No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.”

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267. “Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss.”

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268. “Wisdom had rather be buffeted than not listened to.”

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269. “We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.”

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270. “When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.”

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271. “There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.”

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272. “Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.”

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273. “Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.”

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274. “Fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”

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275. “A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.”

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276. “A god could hardly love and be wise.”

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277. “To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.”

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278. “That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.”

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279. “It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?”

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280. “He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.”

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281. “He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.”

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282. “The empire of custom is most mighty.”

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283. “The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others.”

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284. “Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.”

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285. “They live ill who expect to live always.”

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286. “The future struggles that it may not become the past.”

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287. “Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.”

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288. “To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.”

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289. “The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.”

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290. “The wretched reflect either too much or too little.”

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291. “No one should be judge in his own case.”

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292. “We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war.”

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293. “Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side.”

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294. “An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.”

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295. “He who injures one man threatens many.”

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296. “Some remedies are worse than the disease.”

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297. “To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.”

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298. “That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.”

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299. “It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.”

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300. “To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one’s self.”

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