Publilius Syrus quotes
Publilius Syrus: Latin writer of maxims. The library holds 176 quotes by Publilius Syrus, drawn from Maxim. The 60 below are the most quoted; search the library in the maker for the rest.
Often about: life, money, time, friendship, death, happiness
The best-known Publilius Syrus quotes
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A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Maxim 524 -
His own character is the arbiter of every one’s fortune.
Maxim 283 -
Every one excels in something in which another fails.
Maxim 17 -
Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of everything.
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Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
Maxim 557 -
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Maxim 872 -
Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.
Maxim 170 -
When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.
Maxim 338 Disputed attribution -
He confers a twofold benefit on a needy man who does so quickly.
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Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.
Maxim 1072 -
They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.
Maxim 759 -
An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
Maxim 143 -
He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.
Maxim 598 -
It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.
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You need not hang up the ivy-branch over the wine that will sell.
Maxim 968 -
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.
Maxim 827 -
Every day should be spent by us as if it were to be our last.
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It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Maxim 995 -
When Fortune is on our side, popular favour bears her company.
Maxim 275 -
One is quick to suspect where one has suffered harm before.
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Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own.
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He who knows not how to bestow a benefit is unreasonable if he expects one.
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It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it.
Maxim 282 -
He who overlooks one crime invites the commission of another.
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One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.
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A bad man, when he pretends to be a good one, is worst of all.
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The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
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He is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety, is on his guard.
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Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.
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That help is doubly acceptable which you offer spontaneously when we stand in need.
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Who loses his good name, with what can he support himself in future?
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Honour, like life, when once it is lost, is never recovered.
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There is no hour good for one man that is not bad for another.
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It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
Maxim 785 -
Alas! how galling is it to be injured by one against whom you dare make no complaint.
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He who suffers shipwreck twice is unjust if he throws the blame on Neptune.
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When an angry man returns to himself, he is angry with himself.
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Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Maxim 120 -
Misfortune will some time or other overtake him whom it has often passed by.
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We are interested in others when they are interested in us.
Maxim 16 -
Fortune is like glass,—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Maxim 280 -
Where you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favour on all.
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Well if we see in the misfortune of another what we should shun ourselves.
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He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.
Maxim 930 -
That which belongs to others pleases us most; that which belongs to us pleases others more.
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An angry man is often angry with himself when he returns to reason.
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There is a universal law which commands that we shall be born and shall die.
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Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Maxim 866 -
We must take time for deliberation, where we have to determine once for all.
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It is foolish to distress ourselves about what cannot be avoided.
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The miser is as much in want of that which he has as of that which he has not.
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Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.
Maxim 1042 -
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another’s mishap.
Maxim 825 -
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
Maxim 322 -
How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!
Maxim 725 -
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency.
Maxim 1060 -
One man’s wickedness may easily become all men’s curse.
Maxim 463 -
One should be slow in listening to criminal accusations.
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Maxim 914 -
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.