Publilius Syrus Quotes - Page 14

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• It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

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  Taught, Bitter, Obedience

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• Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

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  Life Is Short, Men, Immortality

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• Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

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  Life, Long, Seems

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 124, 1856.

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• An angry lover tells himself many lies.

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  Lying, Lovers, Angry

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• Man has been lent, not given, to life.

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  Men, Given, Has Beens

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 487-93, Maxims, 1922.

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• It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

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  Anchors, Two, Safety

  "Maxims". 119,

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• Excessive severity misses its own aim.

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  Missing, Aim, Severity

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• There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

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  Wise, Men, Self

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• Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

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  Loss, Gains, Made

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• It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

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  Guilt, Innocent, Easy

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• He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

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  Guilt, Trials

  "Maxims".

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• He gets through too late who goes too fast.

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  Haste, Too Late, Late

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• It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

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  Men, Thinking, Hypocrisy

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• A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.

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  Medicine, Physicians, Patient

  "Maxims".

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• Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.

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  Medicine, Use, Lasts

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• He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

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  Neptune, Shipwreck

  "Gellius". 17. 14,

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• The losing side is full of suspicion.

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  Sides, Losing, Suspicion

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

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  Women, Apes, Homely

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• One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

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  Mother, Nurse, One Day

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• The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.

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  Judgement, Gone, Ends

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• He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.

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  Cabbage, Peppers, Abundance

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• The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

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  Desire, Seems

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• That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

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  Enemy, Fortune, Wretched

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• To die at the command of another is to die twice.

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  Death, Command, Dies

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• Friendship is stronger than kindred.

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  Friendship, Stronger, Kindred

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