Publilius Syrus Quotes - Page 12

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• Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.

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  Sight, Hands, Clean

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• What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!

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  Support, Tragedy, Helping

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• The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

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  Envy, Laughing, Brave

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• The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

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  Broken, Bows, Tension

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 388, 1856.

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• The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

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  Pleasure, Delightful, Variety

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• The wretched reflect either too much or too little.

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  Littles, Too Much, Unhappiness

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• Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.

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  Kissing, Hatred, Countenance

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• You should not live one way in private, another in public.

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  Character, Way, Should

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• He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

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  Triumph, Hours, Conqueror

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• The honied tongue hath its poison.

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  Poison, Tongue

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• Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

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  Fashion, Vices, Flattery

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 276-77, Maxims, 1922.

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• You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

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  Wish, Conditions, Ifs

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• It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.

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  Hands, Suffering, Complaining

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• Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.

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  Law, Giving, Doe

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• No tears are shed when an enemy dies.

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  Enemy, Tears, Shed

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 376, 1856.

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• When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

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  Favors, Sides, Bears

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 275, 1856.

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• There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.

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  Running, Horse, Spurs

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• Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

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  Next, Faults, Innocence

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 1060,

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• In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

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  Sight, Argument, Loses

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• Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

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  Growing Up, Grief, Grows

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• Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

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  Happiness, Education, Failure

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 120, 1856.

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• We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

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  Destiny, Fortune, Masters

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• Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.

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  Pain, Truthful, Speak

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 232, 1856.

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• It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

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  Enemy, Fortune, Pitiful

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• It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Who We Are

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